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Originally Posted by Spuds
EVs have been discussed in Off Topic ad-nauseam, but here's the gist of it.
Total carbon footprint is a tricky calculation and you need to make a number of assumptions to do it. Those assumptions allow for wide variations in the final numbers because everyone who has the motivation (time/money) to calculate it and spread the result assumes the numbers they want to prove whatever point benefits them. This is made more difficult to verify because nothing says anybody has to release any proprietary information that would hurt their own case. To give you a few examples of carbon footprint costs you might not usually think about:
-Cost of manufacturing
-cost of transporting the materials
-cost of transporting the "fuel"
-cost of disposal
And so on...
So tldr: EVs are both more and less polluting at the same time depending on what numbers you use.
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So Ev's are in superposition
