4 responses to “Are electric vehicles sustainable?”

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   Marius de Wit

   4 years Ago

   Please do not state this as facts as it is incorrect.
   1. https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-the-environmental-footprint-of-electric-versus-fossil-cars-124762. Incorrectly calculates the CO2 of a ICE by excluding the extraction/mining + refining + transport of the fossil fuel. This is a massive exclusion!
   1. You calculation on Kg of CO2 produced per year for both is incorrect.

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      Andrew Fulton

      4 years Ago

      Hi Marius
      1) It is indeed a massive exclusion to exclude extraction, refining and transport of the fuel, which is why our fact specified only the manufacturing phase and the use phase.
      2) Thank you for spotting this, we have corrected it.

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   Christopher Geerdts

   4 years Ago

   I dispute your source of info on this. It depends on the car size. Factories are constantly reducing manufacturing carbon footprint. Did you include recycling of batteries? Also, where did you get your annual C02 value of 5.2kg? That sounds low.

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      Andrew Fulton

      4 years Ago

      Hi Christopher

      The precise carbon footprint would depend on numerous factors, which becomes too complex to include in a single fact. We instead showed the average across electric and petrol vehicles. This number would be expected to change over time.
      The 5.2kg has been corrected, thank you.

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