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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
It doesn't require an "ideal" world configuration. It's already true today and the gap widens as the aggregate grids around the world improve. This chart, from an independent data source (Bloomberg) illustrates that. The red lines are the lifecycle emissions of ICE vehicles. The bar stacks detail the contributors to emissions from manufacturing and using EVs. The red lines are far above (more lifetime emissions) from the start. Interesting that the difference is larger in the US than the rest of the world. Simple answer for that. Volume and share of market for full size pickups and utilities outpaces the rest of the world by a lot.
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Gimme a break. How many EVs will last 155,000 miles? Gotta add 50% or more to all the EV emissions levels to be closer to apples to apples to account for building more EVs due to a shorter life span. Then compare that to a civic or other decently efficient ICE and the EV will likely have more emissions. Not to mention this is just looking at carbon dioxide. Not even taking into account other environmental attributes, which the EV is clearly worse.