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At 0.8 pounds of coal per kilowatt hour and 8 kWh to refine a gallon of gasoline from crude oil, an EV that gets 4 miles per kWh uses less coal than a gasser getting 32 mpg (because the gas station adds a few watt-hours per gallon).
This simple statistic is lost on most drivers; that the average EV uses less electricity than the average gasser!
In other terms, a 50 mpg Prius Running on “coal-refined gasoline” requires 5 lb of coal PLUS a gallon of gas (6 pounds) to go 50 miles, while the EV would need ten pounds of coal.
But of course an EV is a gateway drug to home solar power and you can’t use that to fuel a (non Plug-in) Prius.
My EV uses no coal and no gasoline.
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2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV, 112 MPGe
2000 Honda Odyssey
1987 F250 Diesel, 6.9L IDI, goes on anything greasy
1983 Grumman Kurbwatt, 170 kW "Gone Postal" twin
1983 Mazda RX-7 electric, 48 kW car show cruiser
1971 VW Karmann Ghia electric, 300 kW tire-smoker
1965 VW Karmann Ghia cabriolet, 1600cc
Have driven over 100,000 all-electric miles!
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