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Electric cars emit 50% less greenhouse gas than diesel, study finds
- moocowtruck 9y agoI find that the amount of emissions from the production of the batteries is often glossed over. While I do think it can be lower over time.. today it's quite high. Just would be nice that it is brought to peoples attention more when discussing the savings from electric. Not to stop us from moving to electric but from an awareness factor.
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- WorldMaker 9y agoLack of awareness? This argument is brought up a lot. Here's one article debunking one of the complaints about it: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/news/a27039/tesla-battery-emissions-study-fake-news/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/news/a2... It's getting to the point that it's almost silly how recurring a fallacy that somehow battery production emissions are absurd or battery mining conditions abhorrent. Compared to say oil rigs and oil derricks and refineries, it's so very hard for battery mining and battery production to be any worse. The two most "exotic" elements in a Lithium Ion battery, both of which are actually a tiny fraction of the mass, lithium and cobalt, are both still primarily "brine mined" sorting through easy to access pools rather than the mine shaft mining that comes to mind for most people (we're roughly still at the stage of "gold prospecting" and just pulling lithium and cobalt from salts in water, rather than "gold mining" deep into the earth). ETA: Not to mention that this very article and its 50% claim is yet another that includes the carbon emissions of battery production but seemingly none of oil production.