Originally Posted by Hamwich
Some of you may have seen this article in the Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...ener-than-fossil-fuel-vehicles-8hb5m0dm7

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Put all this together and we find that the true break even point of this particular car type is actually 25K Km, not 78K. In other words a couple of years of real-world usage.

Caveat Lecter and all that...

Great rebuttal. If I recall there was some (Dutch? Belgian?) prof who did a similar study ... and made similar mistakes, but at least published a revised version.

PS: for point 4 the Chinese believe the extra CO2 for an EV car manufacture (incl battery) is only ~4.5t! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217309049


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