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> An indestructible 8 mpg truck will definitely be more polluting than an EV using solar electricity that lasts 30 years. I suppose it depends on how many mile
by prottog 3y ago
> An indestructible 8 mpg truck will definitely be more polluting than an EV using solar electricity that lasts 30 years.
I suppose it depends on how many miles that indestructible truck drives, but I presume on the first day of the 31st year, the moment you buy a new EV to replace the old one, the environmental impact flips the other way? Surely everything that goes into manufacturing a new car is dirty enough to offset that 8 mpg.
- reducesuffering 3y agoNo, I don't think mfg'ing is anywhere close to dirty enough to offset how bad 8mpg is for any reasonable mileage. I've seen links for 500 gallons gasoline for car production, let's say safely 1,000 for an EV. 8mpg at 12k miles/year is 1,500 gallons, and over 30 years, 45k gallons of gasoline. An EV will be produced at 1k and then for the foreseeable future be charged with excess solar energy during the day mostly. That doesn't seem close.