A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

  • Shanedino@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ok even if it does shift it, shouldn’t big power plants be way more efficient and clean than hundreds of thousands of little engines?

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      You also have to account for transmission losses and losses in the battery and at every conversion along the way. But also things like regenerative breaking help make electric more efficient as well. It would not surprise me though even with all that if electric was still more efficient than ICE even if the generation was completely fossil fuel based. Just pointing out that it is not just about the efficiency of the generation of power.

    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 month ago

      As an argument for efficiency: If you drive a truck that drags an EV behind it (thus charging the EV), and then you drive the EV, you will get more total range than if you just drove the truck by itself.

      That’s just how much more efficient EV designs are than traditional ICE vehicles.