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If you had to pay the $200/ton ti remove the roughly 5 tons of CO2 your car produces every year, you’d probably want an electric car pretty quickly.
by jwalton 4y ago
If you had to pay the $200/ton ti remove the roughly 5 tons of CO2 your car produces every year, you’d probably want an electric car pretty quickly.
- oceanplexian 4y agoThe average new car is like $40,000. If people had to pay an extra $4-5k (4 year car loan) vs buying an equivalent EV that costs an extra $10-15k people would still choose the gas option.
- jwalton 4y agoMost cars last quite a bit longer than 4 years. If the carbon cost was baked into the initial purchase price of the car, the EV would win by miles. Even if it wasn’t, and you only keep your cars for 4 years, you’d be paying the extra co2 removal fees forever, on every gas car you owned, not just for the first four years, and none of that cost would be capital that you’d get back when you sell the car, whereas you’d recoup quite a bit of the battery cost. What’s more, more than half the energy usage of a car is during manufacturing, so if you had to pay to remove all of that carbon from the air, both cars would start out 10-15k more expensive, and then the EV wouldn’t seem so bad.