WRITTEN BY KENNETH RICHARD ON MAY 24, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Long-Term Driving Of Your Gas Car Has Lower Lifetime CO2 Emissions Than EVs
britain electric car chargingA new study finds “the total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old but operational combustion car instead of buying a new electric one.”
It has long been assumed that replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) will lead to dramatically lower CO2 emissions. [bold, links added]
But after analyzing the CO2 emissions associated with producing an EV, the EV battery manufactured and replaced every ~5 years, and the power supply of the charging stations (whether coal, gas, or wind/solar), scientists (Neugebauer et al., 2022) have determined that an EV emits only eight percent less CO2 over its lifetime than an ICE vehicle does in a country with an electrical grid energy mix like Poland has.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/long-term-driving-of-your-gas-car-has-lower-lifetime-co2-emissions-than-evs/
