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Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Every car you start driving with electricity, you’re not driving with oil,” said Robert Brecha, a professor of sustainability at the University of Dayton in Ohio

The journalist has to have a personal grudge against him. That d'oh quotation makes him seem dumber than my dog.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And it's not even necessarily true: it takes a certain mileage to offset the extra CO2 that an electric vehicle requires for its manufacturing (mostly batteries), which directly depends on the grid's carbon intensity. If you recharge your EV from a coal or oil plant, you are still burning coal and oil.