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Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

That doesn't really seem to be a particularly useful study. You could probably find the exact same thing by selecting for owners of very expensive bicycles, but you would be proving exactly the same thing (which is nothing at all).

A more reasonable approach would be to split into cohorts of different levels of wealth and then compare internally between those cohorts, to see the difference in emissions of an EV owner/transit rider/biker/ICE owner is.

My gut feeling says that we'd find them ranked on the following order, from lowest emissions to highest:

  1. Biker
  2. Transit rider
  3. EV owner
  4. ICE owner

It would be interesting to check whether that gut feeling holds in real life, and particularly how much the groups differ on a per-cohort basis.