What a fucking idiot. Electric vehicles are at most 2-3 times as efficient as a modern ICE. So maybe takes half as much "gas". Which still comes largely from fossil fuels.
Probably if you look at lifecycle emissions on how much energy needed to extract the lithium and turn it into batteries and then recycle it later. Probably at same level as ICE after all that is considered.
I saw an analysis of this question that came to exactly that conclusion - the battery which is only good for 80K miles or so, produced equivalent emissions in production roughly equivalent to the the savings vs an ICE over that mileage.
What a fucking idiot. Electric vehicles are at most 2-3 times as efficient as a modern ICE. So maybe takes half as much "gas". Which still comes largely from fossil fuels.
Probably if you look at lifecycle emissions on how much energy needed to extract the lithium and turn it into batteries and then recycle it later. Probably at same level as ICE after all that is considered.
I saw an analysis of this question that came to exactly that conclusion - the battery which is only good for 80K miles or so, produced equivalent emissions in production roughly equivalent to the the savings vs an ICE over that mileage.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/06/20/tesla-car-battery-production-releases-as-much-co2-as-8-years-of-gasoline-driving/
thanks, I sort of guessed at that intuitively but good to have good reference with calcs.