We don't have Hydro Power depicted in the center column, but I would think that Solar is equivalent. So for us with Solar, I would consider us equivalent to the center item graphed.bcurious said:That evaluation depicted is based upon some electricity sources that I don't seem to have on offer in my U.S. location...
Typical lies, damn lies, and statistics stuff. This Deaths Graph simply doesn't jive with the OP graph. Somebody has excluded some data to generate the graph message that they want (lifetime of car, actual CO2 cost during manufacture, etc). The first graph seems to be the most common interpretation of EV CO2 costs, but a close examination of their basis for CO2 increase for manufacture of the vehicle skews the CO2 cost for Lithium battery production to unbelievable levels and under reports costs of parts in ICE production. I'll have to take some time to check the Tessum, Hill, & Marshall, PNAS report to see how they massaged the data.bcurious said:That evaluation depicted is based upon some electricity sources that I don't seem to have on offer in my U.S. location...
This is a somewhat popular topic for journalism these days...
Perhaps if they cut to the heart(s) of the matter too quickly, they may run out of material on the subject!
This is the first one that I've seen directly linking EV use to deaths:
From the article:
http://www.economist.com/news/scien...t?zid=291&ah=906e69ad01d2ee51960100b7fa502595
and also somewhat recently:
http://www.economist.com/news/scien...e?zid=291&ah=906e69ad01d2ee51960100b7fa502595
The chief point, to me, of much of this writing and discussion is that it's not a clear-cut simple issue of "new EV=savior," but there is fertile ground for an individual consumer and voter to investigate there.
I'm not here to stir the pot nor to debate, and I do drive a B Class as well as some gasoline-powered vehicles. I purchase my residential electricity used for home vehicle charging from renewable sources and use publicly available charging stations powered by unknown sources.
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