[HN Gopher] How green is your electric vehicle really?
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How green is your electric vehicle really?
Author : heresie-dabord
Score : 16 points
Date : 2023-08-10 22:02 UTC (59 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.economist.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.economist.com)
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| swader999 wrote:
| Solar panels are almost exclusively made in China now using coal.
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| The carbon economics of EVs were and still are based on older EU
| solar production that relied on natural gas for energy. Nobody
| has done the recalc.
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| There's hardly a net benefit now.
| Tade0 wrote:
| Solar panels were throughly scrutinised for years:
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| https://solarscorecard.org/past-scorecards
| swader999 wrote:
| Those scorecards prove my point. One, they don't actually
| rate or calculate the net coal used to make the panels. Two,
| the dirty producers market share isn't at all described.
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| Definitely a missed opportunity to make the EV Hummer a small
| city car or possibly even a bicycle.
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| But I guess the EV platform forced their hand and they had to
| make it a big truck, like all the other Hummers.
| oatmeal1 wrote:
| https://archive.ph/ZGn27
| melling wrote:
| There's no story here.
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| "Lucien Mathieu of Transport and Environment, a European NGO,
| says that even the biggest EVs have lower lifetime carbon
| emissions than the average conventional car. That is true even in
| places with plenty of coal-fired electricity, such as China."
| oatmeal1 wrote:
| Carbon emissions are far from the only source of pollution in
| making and maintaining a car.
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