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Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d wager that just accounting for emissions in the production of said electric vehicle will make it entirely unable to compete with container ships. Boats are crazy efficient.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What kind of emissions are we producing to build the ships?

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    • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How long are the cargo ships gonna be in service compared to that smartphone of an electric car?

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of its steel and other metals, so assuming that theyre using electrically pwered smelters most of the emmissions would be in transport and mining equiptment. So probably somewhat comparable, depends on how much rail was used or if it was transportes exclusively via semi.

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      • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Most steel is (unfortunately) made in Chinese blast furnaces using coal coke and powered with electricity from coal power plants.

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  • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good point, I wasn’t considering production.

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    • nicene@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But don’t worry. The cargo ship sprang into being from nothingness and there were utterly no environmental impacts related to drilling, refining, and transportation of the fuel used to power the ship. So clearly EVs are so much worse for the environment /s

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