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Also, making a new car, even an electric one, takes a huge amount of resources. "Producing a medium-sized new car costing £24,000 may generate more than 17 ton
by brabel 6y ago
Also, making a new car, even an electric one, takes a huge amount of resources.
"Producing a medium-sized new car costing £24,000 may generate more than 17 tonnes of CO2e – almost as much as three years' worth of gas and electricity in the typical UK home."[0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/sep/23/carbon-footprint-new-car https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoElectric cars are even worse: they typically don't achieve carbon parity with same-class ICE until about 70,000km. This was discussed recently here on HN, I'll try to find the conversation. Edit: here's the conversation, with link to source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716921 It's about 50,000 to 112,00km depending on the source of electricity used to charge the electric car.
- SECProto 6y agoYou say "even worse", I say "much better". Reaching carbon parity means any car driven more than that creates less carbon emissions. People I know run their cars until 300,000km and our power is >90% nuclear and hydro.
- house9-2 6y agoThis is a pretty good article on ICE vs EV https://www.motorbiscuit.com/are-electric-cars-worse-for-the-environment-than-gas-cars/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/are-electric-cars-worse-for-the... > ... compared to most gasoline-powered cars, an electric car should become carbon neutral in less than 3 years of driving.
- midasuni 6y agoUs average car mileage for new cars is on the order of 15-20,000 a year. So 3 years would be 80,000km which checks out.
- aoeusnth1 6y agoCan you explain what makes you say that figure is worse?
- hedora 6y agoMy reading of the comment is that the embodied carbon of a new EV is greater than that of a new ICE car. This is definitely true. Battery production uses a lot of energy.