EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint (news.berkeley.edu)

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these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get

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[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

But how much of that is simply shifted outside? Manufacturing batteries, generating electricity etc.

[-] epyon22@programming.dev 23 points 7 months ago

Even in areas that use coal you use less overall emissions within the lifetime of the vehicle

https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM?si=l7nepxiZqoWhZrpU

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, my question was, how much of the 2-3% yearly reduction within Bay Area is just shifting the emission to elsewhere?

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah if we factor in the source of the power we might be looking at a not-so-exciting statistic.

However it does put us into position to take advantage of the inevitable greening of the grid. It would be foolish to wait until it is completely greened before beginning the transition to EV's.

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