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Electric cars produce less CO2 than petrol vehicles, study confirms
- simonblack 7y agoThere are three phases in the use of a product: manufacture, usage, and destruction/recycling It matters not if there is an advantage during the usage phase but disadvantage during the manufacturing or the destruction phases. Nuclear Reactors are a prime example: They are great during both the manufacturing and usage phases, but the cost and pollution during the destruction phase (where there is both danger to humans during dismantling, and hugely expensive and dangerous disposal of nuclear waste) Similarly with electric cars. It's useful life is OK, but .... What happens to all those toxic batteries at the end of the car's life? What happens to the toxic byproducts of lithium-ion battery manufacturing at the beginning of the car's life? How much energy is expended (CO2 is produced) at those parts of the car's life?