For example , India , one of the worlds largest energy consumer has much of its grid powered by thermal plants which burn fossil fuels . The rest is hydel powered and there are very few nuclear plants . the emission of thermal plants is huge . So some amount of coal is burnt to charge an electric vehicle in India .
I've posted this multiple times, and the EV advocates always mod it down because they try to suppress anything which portrays EVs in even the slightest negative light. But if you really want to know....
When you want to know the impact of doing something, you do a simple A/B comparison. What happened before you did it (case B), what happens after you do it (case A). Subtract the effect of B from the effect of A to find the difference. That difference is the net impact of doing that something.
Even so the solution for a growing nation like India is not to build out a gasoline-powered infrastructure, but to clean up their electricity generation.
If they hit their targets, electric cars might take over as the cleaner option within the lifetime of vehicles currently being sold:
The article notes that the researchers also predict continued improvements in the efficiency of electric vehicles -- with an unintended side effect. "As time goes on, emissions from manufacturing electric vehicles accounts for a larger share of their total life cycle emissions, the researchers note
Except not. Emissions involved in battery manufacture have been dropping even faster than grid emissions per kWh. And not simply because the lion's share of said emissions are related to
There's lots of losses in getting the crude oil to the gas tank as well. Especially with some types of crude.
When you want to know the impact of doing something, you do a simple A/B comparison. What happened before you did it (case B), what happens after you do it (case A). Subtract the effect of B from the effect of A to find the difference. That difference is the net impact of doing that something.
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If they hit their targets, electric cars might take over as the cleaner option within the lifetime of vehicles currently being sold:
https://ieefa.org/ieefa-india-... [ieefa.org]
If India doesn't hit their targets, it will be worse for all of us, and them.
Re "battery green-ness":
Except not. Emissions involved in battery manufacture have been dropping even faster than grid emissions per kWh. And not simply because the lion's share of said emissions are related to