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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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The calculator here is very telling.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Far far less than if you keep on driving a gas car. It's better to not drive at all, but we're not going to get everybody out of cars.

Proper scrapping does mean destroying the old car and not merely selling it

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Buying a new car, any new car, EV or not is much worse than continuing to drive a current car. Most of the emissions come from the manufacture of the vehicle.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Most of the emissions come from the manufacture of the vehicle.

Not true. EVs offset production emissions in 20-30, 000 miles.

[–] Dyf_Tfh@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can actually scrap a nearly new ice car to change for an EV and still come ahead in lifetime emissions

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

No mention of other emissions besides CO2?