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MnSpring wrote on 09/16/19 at 09:40:06:T And T Garage wrote on 09/15/19 at 19:51:04:
The entire lifecycle of a fossil fuel car uses fossil fuel. Please explain what a 'elect' car uses it's, entire lifecycle ?, Not sure about "elect car, but an electric car uses electricity for its power.Also please explain How is the, electric, that elect car uses, made ? In many ways - coal, natural gas, solar, wind. Whereas a gasoline powered car only uses gasoline.Also please explain, what happens to the old battery in that Elect car ? It can be refurbished, recycled. (can you recycle gas after it's burned?..lol)Also explain, what materials are needed to go into making the 'huge' battery ? The minerals used are nickel, lithium, lead, cobalt and cadmium. Also explain how those materials are gathered. Mining, recycling.Also explain how the, 'Plastic' which encompasses far more on a elect car is made ? There are no more plastics in an electric car than a conventional car - especially in late model cars.Etc,etc,etc, Point is, Not in 1883, not in 1920, not in 1970, and not Today ! However tomorrow, could be. If the UL FDS Socialists stop, SCARING everybody. So the people that do the research, can actually get some work done. Instead of defending the, UL FDS Socialists, who are, JUST, SCARING everybody, to Benefit their OWN pocket. I'm well aware of what you're trying to prove - and you ain't gonna do it.
Here you go, genius:
http://electrek.co/2019/04/22/study-electric-cars-dirtier-diesel-debunked/
http://medium.com/predict/electric-cars-are-they-actually-cleaner-99c184cd5dfa
http://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/19/electric-car-well-to-wheel-emissions-myth/
Those who oppose electric cars like to say that electric cars create more emissions during manufacturing than conventional cars do. And you know what? They’re right! The UCS found that “Manufacturing a midsized EV with an 84-mile range results in about 15% more emissions than manufacturing an equivalent gasoline vehicle. For larger, longer-range EVs that travel more than 250 miles per charge, the manufacturing emissions can be as much as 68% higher.”
Wow! 68% higher. That’s a lot, huh? So, it’s true, electric cars are dirtier than conventional cars, right? Well, actually, no. The UCS report goes on to say, “These differences change as soon as the cars are driven. EVs are powered by electricity, which is generally a cleaner energy source than gasoline. Battery electric cars make up for their higher manufacturing emissions within eighteen months of driving — shorter range models can offset the extra emissions within 6 months — and continue to outperform gasoline cars until the end of their lives.”
That brings us to emissions created by driving. For more information on that, we turn to a report from the Vehicle Technologies Office of the US Department of Energy. It says:
“An all-electric vehicle (EV) does not produce emissions from the tailpipe, but there are upstream emissions (also called well-to-wheel emissions) of greenhouse gases from electricity production. Using electricity production data by source and state, the Alternative Fuels Data Center has estimated the annual carbon dioxide (CO2)-equivalent emissions of a typical EV.
“EVs charging in Vermont are estimated to produce the fewest emissions – oil and gas make up only 1.2% of the electricity sources in the state while cleaner sources such as nuclear, hydro, biomass, wind, and solar make up the rest. West Virginia’s electricity production is 95.7% from coal, making it the state with the most well-to-wheel CO2-equivalent emissions.
“The national average is 4,815 pounds of CO2-equivalent emissions for a typical EV per year as compared to the average gasoline-powered car which produces 11,435 pounds of CO2-equivalent emissions annually.”
So, there it is. On average, a conventional car creates more the twice as much carbon pollution as an electric car. Even in the state that gets almost all of its electricity from burning coal, an EV still pollutes less than a typical conventional car. Assuming a 10 year useful life, an average conventional car will spew out 66,000 pounds more carbon pollution than an average electric vehicle. That’s 33 tons, folks.
When either a conventional car or an electric car reaches the end of its useful life, both require about the same amount of energy to dispose of. But electric car batteries can be repurposed for other non-automotive uses like residential and commercial electrical storage, or the materials inside can be recycled for new batteries or other uses, which means the batteries will continue to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere long after the car they started out powering is no longer on the road. It’s been said that 95-99% of the material in EV batteries can be recycled. Tesla plans to take back batteries, take them apart, and use the materials to create new batteries all in the same factory. Well-to-wheel emissions studies pretty much never take this reuse or recycling into account.
Another important point to remember is that many drivers can put solar panels on their roof to power their electric cars. In fact, CleanTechnica research has found 28–42% of electric car drivers have rooftop solar, and another newer report of ours pinned it down to 32%. Of course, it all depends on regional and individual factors (YMMV), but a large portion of today’s electric car drivers are indeed driving on sunlight, not coal.
So, where do these myths come from? A lot of them can be traced directly to Charles and David Koch, the dynamic duo of disaster who like to use their considerable wealth to buy Congressmen and governors who will do their bidding. Those fun-loving Koch boys are the same people funding the war on climate science. But now that you have the necessary information, you don’t have to fall for their tricks anymore.
The truth of the matter is that electric cars pollute far less than conventional cars over their lifetime.
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