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Comment on China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover

Ohh@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Agree. A new EV needs to drive many years to offset the carbon emission during production of said car. The best thing you can do for the environment (if you want to drive a car) is to keep driving the car you already have. Second best it’s too but a used car. It’s horrendous. We give tax credits to incentives people to buy new conspicuous shit, while punishing those that keep their old, healthy cars.

It’s totally Keyser Söze: the biggest trick the car industry pulled was convincing the public new, big EV cars were actually good for the environment.

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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
arstechnica.com/…/new-ev-vs-old-beater-which-is-b…

According to a recent Reuters article using a model developed by the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the point at which an EV’s carbon footprint meets and begins to fall below that of a comparable gas vehicle in the United States is at around 13,500 miles. So after an average year of driving, the EV is better for the environment. Beyond that, the gap widens.

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- Ohh@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s cool. Thanks. It seems i stand corrected. I’ll look into it. Still it really shows how bad individual transportation is for the environment.
  
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  - asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I agree. I think trains / other stuff would be much better too. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect them to be as effective in countries like the US. At least not in the anywhere near future.
    
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