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I meant what numbers are you using. Googling around, I got 9-17 tons of CO2 to produce a new car. Let's assume 17. For a mid sized gas-powered car, I found an
by rebuilder 7y ago
I meant what numbers are you using.
Googling around, I got 9-17 tons of CO2 to produce a new car. Let's assume 17. For a mid sized gas-powered car, I found an estimate of 0.133 kg CO2/km driven, and for an EV, 0.043 kg.
Let's not count the CO2 the beater car's production put out, that's old news. Let's assume a new car gets driven 200 000 km before it is scrapped. For 200 000 km driven, we get these CO2 footprints:
Beater: 26.6 tons CO2
EV: 25.6 tons CO2.
So for those values, it's really pretty similar! The devil is in the details though - 17 tons of CO2 is a pretty rough estimate for production, one would hope to get more than 200 000 km out of a new car, and the means of electricity production has an effect on the EV's footprint per KM.