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All I'm saying is that no one puts a gun to our head and forces us to have a future with personal cars in the way we have it now But if we start with this (OPs

• Retric 4y ago
  Buying EV’s is a huge improvement over not buying EV’s because they last for ~25 years. The size of their batteries is basically irrelevant in comparison. Sure, after we have electrified highways and improved cities they become more viable and could hopefully be the norm. But, in the short term the biggest impact of small batteries is convincing people EV’s suck. Especially when they don’t last for the full lifetime of a car.
  • lm28469 4y ago
    > Buying EV’s is a huge improvement over not buying EV’s because they last for ~25 years. Not buying a personal vehicle is infinitely better than forcing people to live in car centric societies, buying an EV will just perpetuate the issues we're already facing btw it takes 130k km in Germany to make en EV pollute less than an ICE, with the average of 19km driven per day/per car, I'll let you do the maths. Electric cars aren't here to save the planet, they're here to save car manufacturers
    • Retric 4y ago
      First that 130k km number is wrong, but even ignoring that the average German vehicle is driven twice that. If you want to cut the average in half, it’s going to take longer than the breakeven point. Meanwhile in 2006 62% of electricity in Germany was produced by fossil fuels, that dropped to 40.9% in 2021. So even ignoring inaccuracies in the study your thinking of, the breakeven point just keeps falling as both producing and using EV’s keeps releasing less CO2.