Re:If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Take Away Parking Spaces
by majewsky on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:51PM
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> Norway is on the forefront of the EV revolution, so they can go "green" by just banning gasoline cars.
That's assuming that you can "go green" in any meaningful way with a significant share of motorized private transport. Electric engines might emit fewer pollutants and CO2 than ICEs while operating, but it would take quite some advancements in battery tech to produce the required battery packs without CO2 emissions that are about as significant overall. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608959
As far as the environmental impact goes, it's always much better to replace trips taken by car with trips taken by bike or by foot (or, to a certain extent, by public transit) than to just replace one type of car by another.
That's assuming that you can "go green" in any meaningful way with a significant share of motorized private transport. Electric engines might emit fewer pollutants and CO2 than ICEs while operating, but it would take quite some advancements in battery tech to produce the required battery packs without CO2 emissions that are about as significant overall. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608959
As far as the environmental impact goes, it's always much better to replace trips taken by car with trips taken by bike or by foot (or, to a certain extent, by public transit) than to just replace one type of car by another.