I wonder how a hydrogen strategy would compare….
Does this include a factor in mining of the various ingredients if you will? I have always figured at the end of the day these cars will be about the same impact. I’m on one hybrid, no electrics, lots of gas over the years. I love the hybrid for the 60 miles a gallon, but I sure love the gas for power. I could not imagine buying an electric car and being dependent upon availability of electricity to recharge, especially living out in the rural area like Nevada.
One more time. C02 is PLANT FOOD. Those that produce the most C02 should receive AWARDS for the real greening of the Earth.
Instead of sequestering C02, we should sequester the envirowackos, all on the same island, with plenty of bugs to eat (until the bugs eventually eat them)
Difference is small and more importantly, CO2 is not a problem.
Air pollution/smog is a thing, but that’s not CO2.
Take note of who produced that life cycle graphic...
“Polestar and Rivian Pathway Report”
Two EV manufacturers.
Since these EV’s, because of the weight of the battery, are significantly heavier than gas-powered vehicles, they will wear down road surfaces faster. They will also require more tire replacements. For instance, electric models from Ford, Volvo and Toyota were all roughly 33 per cent heavier than the gas-powered versions of the same vehicles. Increased road repairs require massive energy to transport road materials, equipment, labor and the fuels to run the repair equipment. This cost of repair will mean more dollars out of our pockets in taxes.
The carbon Chicken Littles are too worried about the sky falling than to concern themselves with the factual consequences of their chicken-brained illusions.
One looks at “facts” prepared by the battery vehicle cheerleading squad and wonders just how factual they really are.
I’ve always said a hybrid was the logical first step. A 40% reduction in fuel usage and easy to convert current car production. That would buy the time to ramp up production of the rare materials used in EVs.
My guess is that the hybrid car would win in per capita miles driven because the EV wouldn't be driven as many miles due to distance between recharge and recharge rate limitations.
The hybrid can be driven for longer distances on the same tank of gas than a solo internal combustion engine car, so the emissions would be spread out over more miles driven.
I've driven across the country in an ICE car several times and half-way across the country in a hybrid. I can't imagine doing that in an EV at all.
-PJ
The assumption is clean generation of electricity. The grid is only 33% efficient, and nuclear has gone the way of the dinosaur. I don’t trust thus stuff, the devil is always in the details.
From an electric car maker?
Yeah, sure. I trust that.
It’s taught in grade school science class. Furthermore…
https://www.dutchgreenhouses.com/en/technology/co2-enrichment/
You know what else emits a lot of carbon? Humans.
all of this is moot
they are banning gas cars without even the remote possibility of replacing them with EVs
the purpose of this exercise is to ban private transportation
we will be on the bus
They would need to account for the what the lifetime of each vehicle is.
I.e., how frequently are the EV batteries replaced within the 200k miles that a ICE vehicle can last easily now?
Do the batteries even last 16 years?
I'm driving a 2001 F150 with 295,000 miles (474,756.48 km) and I'm quite sure it will make it to 400,000 miles. At that point, the entire truck can be scrapped and the sheet steel, cast iron and cast aluminum recycled into something new. I could also rebuild everything myself and run it to 500,000 miles.
It's all a mute point though since the infrastructure isn't there to charge all the vehicles if everyone goes EV.
That chart isn’t even close to the cost of an EV.
Notice they didn’t include mining for the battery elements. Just, “production”, which makes me think the manufacturing of the actual battery and not harvesting the materials.