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Well, I live in Santa Barbara, California, which has some of the best weather in country. Never particularly hot or cold, which makes it ideal EV territory. I'm mostly thinking of the North-East and Rust Belt states.I just plain don't like electric heating because I hate inefficiency. An electric heater can never be more efficient than the power plant that produced the electricity to power it. In California, we have a lower carbon footprint for our electricity, but combined-cycle natural gas plants are still only about 60% efficient. A propane heater could easily beat that.I understand if you go electric with solar or have strong ideological reasons behind going electric then this logic doesn't matter to you, but I want electric cars to grow beyond the hardcore environmentalists.
Well, I live in Santa Barbara, California, which has some of the best weather in country. Never particularly hot or cold, which makes it ideal EV territory. I'm mostly thinking of the North-East and Rust Belt states.
I just plain don't like electric heating because I hate inefficiency. An electric heater can never be more efficient than the power plant that produced the electricity to power it. In California, we have a lower carbon footprint for our electricity, but combined-cycle natural gas plants are still only about 60% efficient. A propane heater could easily beat that.
I understand if you go electric with solar or have strong ideological reasons behind going electric then this logic doesn't matter to you, but I want electric cars to grow beyond the hardcore environmentalists.
