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What will be the long term net impact of this be? It seems obvious the impact of moving many vehicles to electric over their lifecycle is much greater then the
by throwaway5752 3y ago
What will be the long term net impact of this be? It seems obvious the impact of moving many vehicles to electric over their lifecycle is much greater then the one time cost of making the batteries with a dirty power source. But I don't have the time or inclination to quantify it.
Without that figure, this is a very stupid article.
- ender341341 3y agoIt's really hard to get good info on it, from trying to find sources previously most tend to hide their funding sources, but the best I've found tend to be that even in the US counties with the dirtiest power generation you're breaking even on carbon footprint after a couple years of average use and given how recyclable the batteries are (we really need to ramp up on how much we're actually doing that though) unless there's a fire even if a car is totalled before it breaks even the bulk of the carbon footprint (the battery) can be recycled at a much lower footprint than the initial mining.