(September 12, 2023 at 12:37 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If you clink on that link and follow their sources you'll find that on coal, an ev and a corolla are roughly equivalent around 80k miles driven (or 100k there are two studies referenced). Before that, the corolla is actually cleaner. It's more a function of how dirty coal is, and how dirty ev production is, than the performance of the vehicles themselves. After that 80-100k miles, then the ev is basically equivalent to an ice vehicle getting 100 miles to the gallon.
So, worst case, the EV is still cleaner over the lifetime of the vehicle.That's a far cry from a blanket statement that internal combustion is 10%-20% cleaner. And, coal only generation is rare, and getting more so, making EVs look even better.
I'm not claiming (and I never have) that EVs are some silver bullet that will magically reverse climate change all on their own, but they're an important arrow in the quiver and it's stupid to perpetuate the petroleum industry's myths about them.
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