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So China burns coal, to generate power, at huge heat and transmission loses, to power “clean” EV cars. Much worse for the planet. Clean gasoline cars, once they implement particulate filters on them, are going to be cheap, and pollute a whole lot less than burning coal.

EVs will be an option but they’re going to have to force the chargers through the grid to only charge during the day to take advantage of solar, and properly account for upstream and downstream emissions on the battery pack manufacturing and disposal. A full life cycle has to be considered.

A gasoline engine, runs for a very long lifetime now, and then immediately becomes high value scrap that can be used and sold immediately. No dangerous batteries to deal with.

parent 486sx33 1 year ago

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