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> 1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20.. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20.... That article compares the
by danans 7y ago
> 1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20.. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20....
That article compares the footprint of building a new car vs keeping and existing already built car, not ICE vs EV lifetime carbon footprint. The actual reduction in lifetime carbon footprint for an EV is around 50% vs and ICE, as described here:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-global-warming-emissions-953 https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-...
Not sure if you'd call that night and day, but it's pretty huge.
> . But there's no doubt that the EV is a huge improvement in use, and switching a large portion of the trucks in our cities to EV would be giant win for air quality.
Indeed, and by consequence, it should reduce the rate of respiratory illnesses in cities caused by particular air pollution today.
- Brakenshire 7y agoThat’s also at American grid levels, and most of the remaining emissions are down to fossil fuels on the grid. Eliminate fossil fuels from grid generation (France for instance is mostly non-fossil already) and the reduction from gasoline to electric is closer to 80%.