a particular harmful for the environment.
When is this happening? When the network feed energy companies, such as the “our” PPC, which base their electricity production in polluting fossil fuels like lignite.
In other words, electromobility is as clean as the electricity that charges the batteries of the vehicle.
Jeremy Μίκαλεκ, a professor of engineering-public policy and mechanical engineering τοθυ university, and his colleagues μοντελοποίησαν the network that feeds the Washington, d.c., Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
“We looked at the way in which the functions of the power plant could be adapted to the loads required for charging electric vehicles. Μοντελοποιήσαμε, also, the emissions from these units and the effects of air pollution on public health and the environment,” explains the Μίκαλεκ.
“We have found that charging an electric car late at night reduces the cost of generating electricity at a rate of from 25% to 33%, mainly due to the consumption of cheap lignite-fired energy. However, these benefits outweigh the additional emissions of pollutants involving 50% higher costs for public health and the environment”, in other words increasing the hidden costs of carbon.
Most companies power generation based on thermoelectric carbon units to cover the evening demand. If the use of such units increased to cover the additional demand of charging electric vehicles accordingly increases, and the emission of pollutants in the atmosphere.
“As we move away from coal and the electricity networks clear, the impact of emissions of the night’s charge will be spread” adds the researcher.
On top of that for fossil fuels, analysts by Bloomberg predict that the increasing penetration of electrification can trigger another cycle of recession, for the χειμαζόμενο petroleum industry with an additional reduction of global demand by two million barrels a day.
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