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You should check out https://www.carboncounter.com https://www.carboncounter.com If you drive very little and mostly on the highway, a mini ICE car may be more
by elil17 4y ago
You should check out https://www.carboncounter.com https://www.carboncounter.com
If you drive very little and mostly on the highway, a mini ICE car may be more efficient than an electric car (due to the fixed emissions associated with producing the battery). Of course, an electric (or even hybrid) vehicle) is a far, far better choice for the vast majority of drivers.
- mesarvagya 4y agoChart confirms SUV's are worse greenhouse emitter than sedan.
- thejohnconway 4y agoSo does this chart not include fixed costs? Because there isn’t a single ICE in chart that’s better than any Electric as far as I can see.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThe whole model is dynamic, so you can go into settings and drop the amount of miles you drive per year down, which should bias towards ICE.
- ajross 4y agoFWIW, that chart doesn't really substantiate your words. In fact just a tiny handful of plugin hybrids (really just the Ioniq and Prius Prime) reach the lifetime carbon impact seen by even the median EVs. And obviously that demands that the plugin be driven mostly as an EV (i.e. actually be plugged in regularly), something that has been frustratingly false for most deployed vehicles.
- elil17 4y agoIf you do 2k miles per year only and all on the highway ICE cars do look favorable. But that is a very atypical circumstance (however, one that OP might be in)