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Anyone curious like me that wants to see emissions of electric vehicles vs gasoline vehicles, check out: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=bt2 htt
by 300bps 3y ago
Anyone curious like me that wants to see emissions of electric vehicles vs gasoline vehicles, check out:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=bt2 https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=bt2
Seems like a reasonable comparison. They're comparing a user-selected electric vehicle to "Average New Gasoline Vehicle". Clicking on "About this Calculation" they're assuming 27 mpg for the gasoline comparison vehicle with a factor of 1.25 added for production and transportation of gasoline.
Myths about electric vehicles addressed here:
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoSlightly more detailed info is available here: https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore (note you have to go into the settings to change various assumptions, like what state, number of miles driven per year and much more)