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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by rapidfl on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:21PM (#46459326)
Like many sibling comments, many companies are on a range that is on the bad side. There is a part of EV supply chain that is particularly bad and that is for all companies.

But what about the environmental costs that are being externalized? EV car production is likely worse or equal to ICE car production at each step. And the only arg seems to be that some day all EVs will be powered by solar/clean energy somehow.

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by rapidfl on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:37PM (#46460400)
> EV car production is likely worse or equal to ICE car production at each step

Does anyone feel otherwise? Is the net carbon and environmental footprint really lower over the entire lifecycle per car for an EV? Not today

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Re:BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal by AlotOfReading on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:17PM (#46461034)
You're severely misinformed if you think the cradle-to-grave footprint of BEVs is higher than ICEs today. Feel free to pick the study of your choice. They're pretty unanimous at this point and the comparison isn't particularly close. Here's a particularly comprehensive study from Argonne:

https://greet.anl.gov/publication-c2g_lca_us_ldv

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