Re:Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
by adrianN on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:43AM
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Tesla is not creating eco cars. While electric cars are better than equivalent ICE cars, Teslas are still too big and too heavy and have a pretty big impact just being manufactured. It takes many, many miles before a Tesla's manufacturing emissions are recouped by the electric drive.
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Re:Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
by natch on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:33AM
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They are designed for a 1 million mile lifetime (and 500k mike battery lifetime currently but this may improve). So that’s not a problem.
Re:Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
by adrianN on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:02AM
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It is a problem insofar as you trade more emissions for the next ten years at least for fewer emissions later and you cement in infrastructure for vehicles that are larger than needed. It seems better to me to encourage the use of smaller vehicles, public transport, and (electric-)cycling. For example I once owned a 1992 Renault Twingo. It needed about 5.5l/100km in the city. Why don't we slap a modern engine in a car of that weight class or build even smaller cars? It would be pretty hard to beat their lifetime emissions with an electric 3 ton SUV and they'd use less space in cities, allowing for denser neighborhoods where you need the car less.