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Offline kimmy

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Re: Electric vehicles
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2019, 04:20:33 pm »
I can't afford to buy an electric vehicle any time soon.

Also, I'm not sure it's the best thing for the environment for me to buy an electric vehicle right now even if I could afford to.


I don't drive a lot. I did some quick calculations and as a rough estimate I think I put about 1500kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by way of driving.  That sounds like a fair bit, but I did some searching on the internet and found that producing an average size car produces about 17000kg of carbon emissions.

So if I drive my current vehicle for 11 more years, I generate less carbon dioxide than buying a new electric vehicle would create before I drive it one centimeter.

At some point in the future the circumstances could change. Maybe some day my living circumstances will change and I will have to drive more. Maybe at some point in the future building a new car won't require 17000kg of carbon dioxide emissions.  Maybe if I wait longer the technology will improve and batteries will have better longevity and more electric infrastructure will emerge.   But for the time being it seems to me like sticking with my current vehicle and modest driving habits is actually better for the earth than buying a new product that will create tons of carbon emissions just to manufacture.


 -k
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