Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by dragonwriter on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:41AM (#21172693)

> You can reduce CO2 emissions from an internal combustion by making it more efficient, but there is not way you can ever bring it down to zero.

You can bring the net environmental impact of CO2 to zero by using a fuel with a carbon neutral cycle, such as biofuels; if you are regrowing as much source material as you are consuming, there is no net emission.

> Thus if you want to ever get to zero, you need to electrify the transport.

Individually, no, but practically, for most transport in use, probably.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by the8472 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:57PM (#21173636)

> such as biofuels

Those have been tried and found competing with food production and forest land (which we also need to keep CO2 locked up). Currently they're not a viable strategy as things stand. Perhaps this might change in the future, but the path is not clear. For EVs on the other hand the path is more well defined.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by de_watcher on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:28AM (#21178597)

Why bother with plants if you can cover the desert with solar panels?

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