Posted on 06/23/2022 12:57:38 PM PDT by grundle
According to Footman James' study, reality is far different because classic cars with those evil, gas-burning engines are better for the environment than new electric vehicles. The thing is people who believe the opposite just look at tailpipe emissions, behaving as if that’s everything in the equation. They don’t consider pollution generated by the manufacturing process.
In the study, Footman James mentions that in the UK a classic car on average is driven 1,200 miles a year and puts out 563 kg of CO2 as a result. But a new VW Golf is made by generating 6.8 tonnes of CO2e. Even worse, a Polestar 2 (a Swedish electric car) generates 26 tonnes of CO2 during the manufacturing process. That means you could drive your classic car for over 46 years before it generates as much CO2 as the “green” electric vehicle. Let that sink in for a moment.
Footman James rightly points out that within that 46-year period, the Polestar 2’s battery will need to be replaced, maybe even swapped for a new one twice or more. And what happens to the battery? Can it really be recycled? The answer for now is no. Meanwhile, the classic car keeps running without contributing significantly to a landfill.
I wish the study dug more into the human and environmental costs associated with the extraction of raw materials to build electric cars. There’s also the fact many of these minerals are mined in authoritarian countries like China and Russia where many accusations have been levied that slave labor is used in the process.
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Try running your car all night in sub freezing weather. If you. ever get stuck in a wizard where your battery will die quickly if you are screwed. Whereas a gasoline engine can be started ran, and shut down from time to time. Your battery hybrid in the meantime will be toast. As this past winter proved so true when a few major snow storms shut down traffic and stranded people, those with combustible engine did fine as long as they had gas, the ones with battery and or hybrid were screwed.
Plus, you will never ever be able to have a battery operated vehicle to do what heavy equipment does. Electricity cannot generate. enough power to do the jobs machinery with. combustable engines can do.
Take your future and take a hike. The more people drive those death traps, the more expensive they will become, because the same people pushing you to get. in them, are shutting down all conceivable ways to properly get electricity generated for them.
How fast is it when it is plugged in?
In a cross country race my 2001 Camry would blow the doors of a pure EV. Every time the EV stopped to charge my Camry would put 60 miles on it. Day 2 my car would be 500 miles ahead of the EV.
Sweet Olds! 👍
Looks nice. I bet it sounds like a microwave oven tooling down the road.
“older cars have a character that EV’s never will. You just can’t compare the two.”
Good to hear. Looking forward to driving my recent 356C Porsche purchases. (One of each body style).
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