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Re:Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999... by reaperducer on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:19AM (#25083807)
This is something that the EPA has been trying to get people to believe since at least the 80's. It's called "point source pollution."

Instead of having a million lawn mowers each belching out pollution, you use electric mowers and have all the filth at the power plant, where it can be cleaned and scrubbed better. And when new technology comes along to clean better or shift to a new form of energy production, you only have to upgrade one power plant instead of making a million people buy new mowers.

Somehow it never caught on. I don't know why.

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Re:Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999... by mschuster91 on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:29PM (#25084836)
The lawn mower example is really good. Lawn mowers and leaf blowers have horrible pollution issues - until 2016 they were entirely unregulated in the European Union.

To make it worse, people are directly near the exhausts of these machines which means that this is way, way more harmful than whatever a car manages to emit.

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Re:Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999... by srtjstjsj on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:16PM (#25095705)
Because battery powered mowers and blowers aren't good. They require impractically large battery mass.

A laptop runs at 20W. A lawnmower runs at 1200W.

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