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Or Prius Prime? The new version of prius plug in would give epa estimated 133 mpge which is the highest number for any car sold in USA. So if you really conside
by gordon_freeman 10y ago
Or Prius Prime? The new version of prius plug in would give epa estimated 133 mpge which is the highest number for any car sold in USA. So if you really consider efficiency and even carbon emissions then that is the car one should get. A good amount of electricity is generated in America by coal based power plants so in a way, comparing mpge numbers make more sense while thinking about reducing the carbon emissions. Also found this tool really useful to see carbon footprint of a car.
Www.carboncounter.com
- brightball 10y agoDefinitely the right approach. The more options out there like that the better IMHO.
- audunw 10y agoI'd just like to add that mpge does not really make sense for EVs. There simply aren't enough EVs to make any significant impact on short-term carbon emission. All the EVs produced by the end of this decade won't make even a tiny dent. You can't really think of EV as relevant at all in the short term. You have to think of it as part of a two-decade long strategic plan. The same is partly true for PHEV with sufficient battery capacity. So the question is really, how is electricity generated in 20 years? I think there's reason to be optimistic about that question. In general, when it comes to the environment: don't mistake the forest for the trees. But I see that, ironically, both environmentalists and deniers like to focus on carbon emissions on EVs (equivalent or not). Environmentalists like to say that they're "zero-emission" to boost their ego, while deniers like to show worst-case scenarios to try to make EVs no better than gasoline cars. But if you're calculating the carbon emission of an EV today, you've already missed the point.