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> It takes about the number of miles that the average person drives in a year. I wish that was true. Volvo recently put out a statement that it takes about 70k
by VBprogrammer 5y ago
> It takes about the number of miles that the average person drives in a year.
I wish that was true. Volvo recently put out a statement that it takes about 70k miles to recover the initially higher energy input using the world average energy mix. Some 9 years of the average UK milage.
Of course, if manufacturing is made significantly less CO2 intensive then the maths change.
For what it's worth, even if there was no CO2 benefit I'd still be rooting for electric cars to succeed for various other reasons including noise, particulates etc.