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Lowering your carbon footprint
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RE: Lowering your carbon footprint
November 25, 2018 at 11:22 pm
I used to think that EVs are dirtier because of the initial carbon cost to manufacture the batteries instead of just the one battery in a gas burning vehicle. According to these two articles:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/19/ele...ions-myth/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/...2e3e960964

it appears that the cost is a bit higher (about 15%) and even really significant (up to 68%) in longer range EVs but along the lifetime of the car the efficiencies of power plants means that operating an EV greatly reduces your footprint over time. According to the Tesla article the batteries can be 70% reclaimed so that is encouraging.
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Lowering your carbon footprint - by onlinebiker - November 25, 2018 at 6:58 am
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Angrboda - November 25, 2018 at 8:55 am
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Dr H - November 30, 2018 at 6:53 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by onlinebiker - November 25, 2018 at 2:14 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Fireball - November 25, 2018 at 2:30 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Angrboda - November 25, 2018 at 2:59 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by AFTT47 - November 25, 2018 at 8:13 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Fireball - November 25, 2018 at 9:32 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by onlinebiker - November 26, 2018 at 2:02 am
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Shell B - November 25, 2018 at 2:50 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by onlinebiker - November 25, 2018 at 4:01 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 25, 2018 at 3:03 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by onlinebiker - November 25, 2018 at 3:49 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by brewer - November 25, 2018 at 3:54 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by ignoramus - November 25, 2018 at 10:33 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by The Valkyrie - November 25, 2018 at 10:35 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Paleophyte - November 25, 2018 at 10:52 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by ignoramus - November 25, 2018 at 11:15 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by Rhizomorph13 - November 25, 2018 at 11:22 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by ignoramus - November 25, 2018 at 11:28 pm
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by ignoramus - November 26, 2018 at 2:48 am
RE: Lowering your carbon footprint - by The Grand Nudger - November 30, 2018 at 7:25 pm

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