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What you want to look at is CO2 emitted per km/mile, and electric cars are usually quite a bit better: https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore https://www.carb
by thatfrenchguy 5y ago
What you want to look at is CO2 emitted per km/mile, and electric cars are usually quite a bit better: https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore . Obviously there's a lot of challenges: having a grid that can sustain fast charging on peak times for holidays is really non trivial for examples.
And obviously, less cars and less car mileages is better, just like no matter what the insulation it's better that people live in smaller places.
- Valgrim 5y agoWhat you actually want to look at is a full cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment. In this regard, an electric car is about an order of magnitude better than an ICE car, but it's also much much worse than no car at all.