• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    And what are the pollution costs of even manufacturing a new vehicle, VS one that’s already in place?

    We can’t manufacture our way to using fewer resources.

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      5 months ago

      You can, though. There are many lifecycle analyses using actual data to calculate the tradeoff point.

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      5 months ago

      We can’t manufacture our way to using fewer resources.

      Why not? Seems like a pretty simple formula: if it costs X amount of resources or pollution to save Y amount of resources or pollution per unit time, the break-even point is whenever Y times time exceeds X.

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      5 months ago

      This depends a lot on how much the one already in place pollutes, vs the new one.

      For an EV vs a slightly older ICE, on your average western power grid (so not fully renewable, but not fully coal either), it takes just a few years till the EV’s total lifetime emissions are less.