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> 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 peopl
by 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 agoFirst 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.