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I think it’s a very pessimistic view.

In addition, the reason for driving an electric car was not to save energy, but to get more flexibility and where to get energy from.
-Producing green energy is easier (and cheaper) than producing green gasoline.
ICE is less efficient (20-40%) compared to a power plant (40-90%). This difference is very big even a Model 3 on coal power plants is better than ICE car. And it’s not like there are any really fast EVs now. Stellantis products are very slow. And Teslas, although fast, are very economical. It should come as no surprise that a company like Ferrari continues to focus on performance.
-Arguments such as: battery production is bad, can be easily countered with the argument that gasoline production is also a big job: search, upstream, intermediate, downstream, only then you will have it in your car. In addition, of course, you have motor oil (which burns very badly) and now also adblue. In any case, you can see that the difference between ICE and EV at 0 KM is something like 40% in favor of ICE.
-You also have this kind of wind turbine analysis, so they calculate how long after running something will “pay for itself”, often within a few months, but always within a year.
-With EV you are less dependent on countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, etc. Yes, once for your battery production, but after that you have more flexibility.
-Pollution is easier to control and reduce, for example capturing CO2 is easier in the chimney of a power plant than on a highway.
– Very low probability of a major environmental disaster (Maximum depth of water, Shell Nigeria etc.), which does not say that cobalt ore is a party, but after 100 years of oil production you cannot say that this is very good now.

Of course, we make them from materials that we don’t haul here on diesel-powered cargo ships from the other side of the world.

As I said, extracting 30 tons of crude oil from the bottom of the sea also costs something and the gas often flares up, then it is dragged to the Netherlands, after which it has to be refined, which is also not good and a lot of it flares up at that time. process If you have gasoline, it must be taken by a diesel truck to a gas station where you can fill it up and burn it. Bottom line, it’s better to mine 2 tons of battery raw material so you can match your country’s sustainable energy mix and use the best power generation (gas or steam turbine, if you’re unlucky, wind turbine if you’re unlucky. ) than that in an inefficient otto engine.

The main thing is that the improvement happens gradually. Not immediately. It goes step by step. Electricity, including battery storage, is very flexible and has the potential to be more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.

(Reply edited by clonic on April 8, 2024 5:29 PM)