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Whither electric cars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

GIACOMO de SABATA
GIACOMO de SABATA
Affiliation:
via Bigli, 4, I-20121 Milano, Italy
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Abstract

In a previous report I tried to show that the widespread use of electric cars, both battery-powered and so-called ‘hybrid’ types (i.e. vehicles utilizing an electric motor powered by a battery in town, and a combustion engine on open highways), would not reduce, but rather increase, air pollution, because the electricity required to run them would have to be generated by a large number of additional fossil-fuel burning power plants, with a lower total energy efficiency (de Sabata 1995).

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 2
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1997 Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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