{"id":27977,"date":"2023-06-05T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=27977"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:04:45","slug":"yes-electric-vehicles-are-greener-than-gas-cars-even-when-they-use-dirty-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27977","title":{"rendered":"Yes, electric vehicles are greener than gas cars \u2014 even when they use dirty power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/639cb2a0b67d300019e7e6a4?width=1200&amp;format=jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"99\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Electric cars aren&#8217;t emission-free, but driving one in the US produces roughly the same emissions as a gasoline vehicle rated at 91 miles per gallon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/electric-cars-environment-emissions-gas-battery-coal-power-2022-12\">Yes, electric vehicles are greener than gas cars \u2014 even when they use dirty power<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;That means, perhaps counterintuitively, that &#8220;green&#8221; cars begin life with a heftier carbon footprint than their &#8220;dirty&#8221; counterparts. A medium-sized electric car leaves the factory responsible for 33%-57% greater emissions than a comparable internal combustion engine (ICE) one, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/charts\/comparative-life-cycle-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-a-mid-size-bev-and-ice-vehicle\">International Energy Agency says<\/a>.\u00a0<br>But since EVs are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/afdc.energy.gov\/vehicles\/electric_emissions.html\">significantly cleaner to operate<\/a>, their environmental debt is repaid relatively quickly once they hit the road.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It found that trading in a conventional, 32-mpg sedan for an electric one would slash greenhouse-gas emissions by 52%.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The UCS&#8217;s analysis puts the tipping point at 21,300 miles (for the aforementioned electric car and sedan), less than two years of driving for the typical American.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Per the UCS, more than 90% of the US population lives in an area where driving the average EV yields lower emissions than a 59-mpg ICE vehicle, the most fuel-efficient one available.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars aren&#8217;t emission-free, but driving one in the US produces roughly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[87,543,244,140],"class_list":["post-27977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cars","tag-electricity","tag-ev","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}