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Seriously. 0.3% percent of new cars in 10 years are electric or partially electric and drove gas usage down by 0.5%? Seems like a victory.
by Teknoman117 4y ago
Seriously. 0.3% percent of new cars in 10 years are electric or partially electric and drove gas usage down by 0.5%? Seems like a victory.
- thrill 4y agoThat "news" article could have easily spun it the other way and said EVs have double the influence on gas usage.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoIMO tech pessimism sells these days in a way that optimism doesn't, so places like Ars and The Verge lean into it.
- v0idzer0 4y agoNot just tech. Pessimism sells better than optimism regardless of subject matter
- TSiege 4y agoCould be hybrids accounting for the rest
- timeon 4y agoBut is that really relevant in the end? Is CO2 decreasing?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoyes by ~0.1% +/- 0.1% (of US output)
- bastawhiz 4y agoYes, by 5.4 million metric tons: > For 2021 specifically, plug-in vehicles saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline—about two days of consumption—and reduced CO2 emissions by 5.4 million metric tons, consuming 6.1 TWh in the process. It really doesn't matter if the total CO2 decreases, just that it trends downward. If no downward trend started to trend downward, we wouldn't have any downward trends, would we?
- SideQuark 4y agoUnless over that period increased mileage in gas cars accounted for a bigger reduction, which is the far more likely explanation gives the tiny amount of EVs.