RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 7:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2021 at 7:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 16, 2021 at 4:55 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: From what I remember (I haven't re-watched the video yet) is that Adam claims how EVs pollute more than gasoline cars because they take electricity from the grid that gets supplied by coal and oil. But that seems to be misleading.
Hybrids, again. The episiode setup was about a guy who had a hybrid thinking of purchasing a new ev to cut carbon. It was their intent to demonstrate how an ev's carbon savings are conditional. They are. In a quarter of states and for all of the people who live in them...a hybrid had a lower carbon footprint than an ev precisely because of how they generated that electricity.
That was four years ago. Last year we got new numbers. Hybrids continue to beat evs in Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, N Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. In seven more states, evs are becoming more competitive but certainly not competitive enough to offset their more costly manufacture (these two groups were the quarter of states in which a hybrid flatly outperformed evs on the carbon front when the episode aired.
W Virginia was (and still is) a huge outlier... and would actually fit the mischaracterization of the episode that lead to a bunch of well meaning but pointless attempts at a rebuttal. There's very little, if any, carbon benefit to driving an ev over a gas powered vehicle in that state. This is because an ev is estimated to produce over 9klbs of carbon well to wheel annually in WV, which is right up there with any comparable gas powered vehicle.
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