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Life Cycle Emissions: EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles

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We look at carbon emissions of electric, hybrid, and combustion engine vehicles through an analysis of their life cycle emissions.

Life Cycle Emissions: EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles

We look at carbon emissions of electric, hybrid, and combustion engine vehicles through an analysis of their life cycle emissions.

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  • There needs to be plug-in hybrids in this type of analysis.

    • They're included ... middle of the pack, still pretty grim statistics.

      • That's a regular hybrid, not a plug-in hybrid.

        • Would the difference, even considering a somewhat larger battery, be that significantly different compared to an EV or an ICE?

          • The ICE would only occasionally run, while at the same time you don't have to have such a big battery. That could be greener than any of the three options listed.

            • Any vehicle with two power sources is, by definition, exceptionally inefficient and therefore, unnecessarily expensive. I personally am eagerly awaiting safe hydrogen storage so vehicles can truly be zero emission. Toyota just announced they're close; GM tried for decades and gave up. We'll see...

              • Yes, hydrogen cars in the long avoids both. No ICE nor giant battery.

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