Not op, but the material gathering and building of EVs is far more energy intensive and resource intensive than gas cars. They do even out but it takes a number of years on the road depending on the vehicle.
Additionally they are very heavy which requires more infrastructure maintenance and therefore more emissions.
That is to say EVs are not a sure fire improvement and it depends on the car, the place you are, the supply chain producing your car, where it’s going to end up, and your own driving habits.
Or we could just invest in rail instead of doubling down on private vehicles. Then we can be sure.
I’m not sure that’s true, because coal plants themselves are not very efficient - they’re on average about 30% efficient which isn’t much better than an ICE.
Take that, transmission losses and the higher resource cost to build an EV, and… It doesn’t look great for them. Sure they can be 90% efficient but that doesn’t matter as much as it should unfortunately.
@Mars @wrinkletip Hello, what century are you living in? The US gets only 20% of its electricity from coal and dropping fast. In CA it’s 0%.
Aside from that, EVs are so much more energy efficient that an EV using electricity from a coal plant still produces less CO2 than an ICE car.
Not op, but the material gathering and building of EVs is far more energy intensive and resource intensive than gas cars. They do even out but it takes a number of years on the road depending on the vehicle.
Additionally they are very heavy which requires more infrastructure maintenance and therefore more emissions.
That is to say EVs are not a sure fire improvement and it depends on the car, the place you are, the supply chain producing your car, where it’s going to end up, and your own driving habits.
Or we could just invest in rail instead of doubling down on private vehicles. Then we can be sure.
I’m not sure that’s true, because coal plants themselves are not very efficient - they’re on average about 30% efficient which isn’t much better than an ICE.
Take that, transmission losses and the higher resource cost to build an EV, and… It doesn’t look great for them. Sure they can be 90% efficient but that doesn’t matter as much as it should unfortunately.