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Its like the claim that electric cars are fossil fuel free. Technically they still use oil in the engine, the tires, glycol in cold temperature, and last the en
by belorn 7y ago
Its like the claim that electric cars are fossil fuel free. Technically they still use oil in the engine, the tires, glycol in cold temperature, and last the energy itself is likely to be generated from fossil fuels. The roads it travel on is often petroleum based.
A lot of Fossil fuel is involved when a electric car travels so a more accurate description is to call them low-carbon transportation, but no one does that.
- Jedd 7y agoIt's rare that I hear an EV described as 'fossil-fuel free'. What may be said about them is that they are - or can be - carbon-neutral ... usually with the qualifier 'to operate'. Manufacturing releases a lot of carbon, I agree. That's changing, but I expect the pragmatic view is that the change is best described as an asymptote.
- belorn 7y agoI did mention oil for the engine, glycol, and tires, which are all considered operational costs for a car owner rather than manufacturing. Neither of those are carbon-neutral in that you extract carbon as fossil fuels from the ground and release it into the environment. We do have manufacturing like the steel and plastic parts of the car, but those are as you say a different matter to the operational costs.