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There’s no story here. “Lucien Mathieu of Transport and Environment, a European NGO, says that even the biggest EVs have lower lifetime carbon emissions than t
by melling 3y ago
There’s no story here.
“Lucien Mathieu of Transport and Environment, a European NGO, says that even the biggest EVs have lower lifetime carbon emissions than the average conventional car. That is true even in places with plenty of coal-fired electricity, such as China.”
- oatmeal1 3y agoCarbon emissions are far from the only source of pollution in making and maintaining a car.
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- dnissley 3y agoExactly what I was thinking -- how about the manufacturing process itself
- Tagbert 3y agoWhile there are some differences in the materials used for EVs vs ICEVs, it’s not radically different. Both use a lot of the same elements. Yes it does take more energy to build an EV but most EVs will offset that by the first 12K miles. After that an EV has a much lower environmental impact. It’s all about efficiency.
- _hypx 3y agoThe problem is that we have conflated BEVs with all EVs. There is more than one way of making EVs. Most of the problems of EVs will go away once we realize that. But until then, we are stuck in a fantasy that BEVs is the only solution or that it even is a solution. Any specific attack on BEVs automatically becomes an attack on the concept of EVs, with other types of EVs not even acknowledged to exist. And all of the problems of BEVs are now “necessary evils” because those other types of EVs don’t exist. It just becomes a cult of batteries, where a terrible solution most be accepted because any criticism of it must imply an even worse outcome.