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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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