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Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ... by bildung on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:05AM (#27194035)
All true, though to be fair CO2 savings with electric cars also only range, depending on car and country (i.e. local infrastructure and means of electricity production), from 0% to 35% of lifetime CO2 emissions of an equivalent ICE car). https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...
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Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ... by devmor on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:29AM (#27194275)
I wouldn't consider up to 35% to be worth of the disqualifier "only" - that's a pretty huge reduction, even if we'd like it to be much more.
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Re:Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on ... by bildung on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:15AM (#27194834)
Absolutely, I meant that the gains made by electric cars aren't that huge that the inefficiency of h2 production automatically disqualifies that approach.

(I do feel the need to point out that public transport saves much more though, 85% for Hamburg, Germany, so again this heavily depends on the local situation.)

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