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1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] oversea@lemmings.world -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

edit: so the article claimed to have factored electricty generation. Cant believe you are the one being downvoted this hard. As someone who worked in the renewable energy research institute, each time people equal ev to 'clean' automatically I get crazy. The article especially mentioned china, who has a significant portion of electricty generated by coal. Even its by oil, it would produce more co2 for energy loss in conversion. The article has no merit with such flawed comparison

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article literally states they factored in charging the battery, which is the main reason they are being down voted. Read the dang article if you are going to criticize it.

[–] oversea@lemmings.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did not catch the single sentence buried there while being distracted by the old/new ev critism talk. Thanks for pointing out. This is interesting now if true. I'm reading the pdf later

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I am assuming it is true based off other reasings. Didn't really read the data behind this article though. From past references larger battery EVs take about 16 months of break-in before it's carbon neutral for manufacturing / emissions costs from an ICE vehicle. At that point even the heavy fossil fuel reliant electrical grids for charging is more energy / carbon neutral than the cost to refine / deliver / use gasoline for ice vehicles.