"We decided to let the earth and all living things on it die, as it would be too hard on the economy if we tried to save it". /s
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Oh wow, another EV thread with a bunch of oil industry mouthpieces telling us how the studies are wrong and what we didn't think of. Thank you Mr. Shell, I almost forgot not everyone has a charging point at their house and it takes time to charge an EV.
Color me surprised.
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If you want to be better than that, look for cars with LFP battery. They tend to be used in the less expensive cars and in lower capacity configurations. Their carbon footprint is roughly half of the regular NMC batteries and the only mined metal they need is iron and no zink, mangan or cobalt are needed in their chemistry.
That and try to use renewable energy, eg with home owned photovoltaic. If you do all of that, the break even is way before even 2 years and life cycle CO2 footprint is only a fraction of an ICE vehicle.
UMich research cited in the article estimates a carbon dioxide emissions per year (using constant mileage typical per year) break even time between EV and ICE SUVs to be 1.6-1.9 years.
Promising. But, is carbon dioxide emissions the only environmental impact? Humanitarian impact (e.g. rare metal extraction labor conditions)? I’m not an environmentalist researcher/academic. I wonder how accurately just one emissions prediction portrays the full picture.
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Burning petroleum is one of the most destructive things you can do and it is absolutely common to do it. Everyday a single vehicles emits enough pollution to kill countless people. It gives them cancer and when combined with lead has resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths. It is absolutely insane people continue supporting this technology.
The Chinese uptake of EVs has saved 280,000 lives due to reduced emissions/pollution.
I drive through Wyoming yesterday, and was struck by how much carbon one has to burn just to keep extracting oil, let alone refining it and shipping it.
As long as both use tires that contribute 45% of the world's microplastics, this is focusing on the wrong issue
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c05002
So I say, let's not get distracted
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I keep hearing this and the opposite
What about different battery types? Those with/without kobolt for example
Also manufacuring might be done differently in different places.. wonder how much pollution renaults batteries do (made in france) compared to those made in asia
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That sounds great except the batteries don't last forever, so new ones have to keep getting made, which is still ongoing pollution in a different form. If you really want to reduce pollution, ride a bicycle.
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