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Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
What’s the lifecycle impact on the environment? You’re saving a few hundred watts a day, but how many watts of dirty energy did it take to build the thing?
How much do you need to use it per day, for how many days, before it breaks even on the environment?
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Asking the real questions here. The sad news is a lot of hybrids and electric cars lose that battle too. It doesn’t seem very intuitive but the dirty energy and logistics cost to produce a Tesla battery will probably always outweigh its carbon savings. I want clean stuff, but I want it the real way, not the virtue-signaling way.
antizero99@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I thought this fud had been debunked.
Are you accounting for the energy used to extract the oil, the energy used to transport it to a refinery, the energy used to refine it, the energy used to transport it to the gas station and then the energy used to pump into your car?
There is no way that the carbon needed to create a battery is more over the decades of life for said battery along with the renewable used to charge it, than the ongoing carbon released to keep ice engines running.
There is also a move to power battery facilities with renewables and when we reach a point where batteries are being recycled it gets even better.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We have move past ice engines and right now ev is our best option.
GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This has been disproven. Yes, the initial carbon cost is higher, but overall it’s beneficial, especially if we’re talking about the lifetime of the engine. And I’m sure the reduced maintenance helps too.