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Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax by stetrain on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:32PM (#37324568)
Cradle to grave analysis of most EVs puts them ahead on emissions, even including manufacturing, even with poor grid mixes of mostly coal power. Battery materials are also recyclable, so those manufacturing impacts should decrease over time on a per-vehicle basis.

Smaller, more efficient vehicles with smaller batteries are definitely better and should be incentivized.

If you want to compare them yourself, don't forget to include all of the externalities from drilling, transporting, and refining petroleum before it reaches the pump. Tailpipe vs tailpipe certainly doesn't tell the whole story.

Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax by acdha on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:41PM (#37330096)
You’re right assuming preferences don’t change but I think it is worth highlighting the research suggesting that large EVs will never break even compared to normal sized ICE vehicles. We can’t afford to allow greenwashing where someone pretends a large SUV is anything but polluting.