{"id":21233,"date":"2026-01-23T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21233"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:30","slug":"questions-about-evs-i-have-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21233","title":{"rendered":"Questions About EVs? I Have Answers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even when comparing an electric vehicle getting electricity from a gas power plant to a gas vehicle, electric vehicles are still more carbon friendly because a car&#8217;s engine is less efficient at generating power than a gas power plant, and because a lot of carbon is used to transport gasoline. And, as electric grids use more and more low-carbon sources, the electric cars have an even greater carbon advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Questions About EVs? I Have Answers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gp5KF2IhUtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when comparing an electric vehicle getting electricity from a gas power plant to a gas vehicle, electric vehicles are still more carbon friendly because a car&#8217;s engine is less efficient at generating power than a gas power plant, and because a lot of carbon is used to transport gasoline. And, as electric grids use more and more low-carbon sources, the electric cars have an even greater carbon advantage. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gp5KF2IhUtY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1092,237,105,1504,913,235,1218,104,914,1112,1265,694,1352],"class_list":["post-21233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cars","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-global-warming","tag-grid","tag-low-carbon-energy","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-power","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21234,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions\/21234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}