Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Life-cycle emissions of battery electric cars are 73% lower than gasoline cars. When using only renewable electricity, the reduction is up to 78%. (theicct.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm surprised using renewable electricity only drops the percentage by 5%. Can anyone explain why that is?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The 73% is based on EU electricity, which is 71% low carbon.

Then cars are less efficent then power stations and oil needs to be refined, which itself requires a lot of energy.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Also:

Not accounting for the expected changes in the electricity mix inflates the estimated life-cycle emissions of BEVs and slightly increases those of PHEVs.

So they didn't just take the current electricity mix but also considered current estimates in how that mix develops over the next decades.

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