pulse Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 02:38AM
Here there's a term regarding moving emissions from the exhaust to the outlet.
Although our energy infrastructure is massively moving towards greener/renewable
(solar, wind, hydro, all of which we have a huge amount of) the reality is right
now ~65% of our electricity is coal. So it's only 1/3 "clean" (I guess
better than 0/3 of petrol?). The coal plants all have a plan for decommission
though, and no new ones are being built (despite us having so much coal we can
basically never use it all).
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www.energy.gov.au]
With that said though; that electricity will be generated regardless of
use right now (as electric vehicles are such an insignificant number of cars on
the road they're not even a rounding error so certainly don't impact the volume
of electricity generated) so you can consider them clean as they're not adding
to emissions that wouldn't already be generated, however are removing the
exhaust gasses of a petrol vehicle.
It's the future though, whether you like it or not. I bought a new car, picked
it up on new years eve. I had the decision between petrol and electric (model 3
performance was my electric choice). I went for petrol driven, however I am well
aware my next car will be electric and I figured no matter which car I got I'd
only keep for 3-3.5 years max.
woberto Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 04:01AM
Shut your noise pulse!
Until you have watched this...
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www.youtube.com]
You commie-pinko-labor-voting beotch!
pulse Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 10:06AM
It kind of spends 14 minutes saying the same thing as I wrote above
It's the future, but we need to get a lot
better with our electricity generation.
The other thing it glosses over with petrol is the emissions involved in getting
the dead dinosaur goo from the source to the destination. We're a net importer
of refined fuels; so that means mostly goo is sucked up from somewhere, refined
somewhere else, and sent on a ship to our shores. None of this is emission free,
and all adds on top of the co2 emissions of the petrol engine burning the fuel
just like manufacturing higher capacity batteries does. Depending on where you
are in the world (as the video says, this is a global issue) then some places
will be better, some will be worse for this.
I'll be honest here though. I don't really care about environmental impact. I'm
a selfish cunt, I don't have kids, the world can blink out of existence as soon
as I'm dead for all I care; I won't be around to see it. I'll pay extra for
electric cars and to generate more electricity simply to remove the flow of
funds to shitty regimes across the world. Stop supporting the Middle East, stop
supporting Russia. That alone is worth the price of admission to me.
My main reason for looking electric had nothing to do with green and 100% to do
with acceleration performance. I don't need range, I want a fun car. The main
reason I went for the car I got was acceleration was fine (not model 3
performance, but good enough) however the car was probably half to 2/3 the
weight, so it's also nicely chuckable
I don't drive much, certainly not enough to
make a material difference to emissions. When I do, I want to enjoy it and
despite its party trick of great acceleration, the Tesla simply wasn't fun.
The car I traded was 6 years old and had done 35,000km (and my wife ran most of
them up). I sold our second car last year too; 11 years old, 30,000km. Between
the two of them, that's around 6,000km / 3,800 miles per year on average. We now
have 1 car, it's nearly a year old, and has done 4,000km so far.
woberto Report This Comment Date: October 18, 2022 10:36AM
Oh Yeah?! Well.... I agree with you. Mole.
pulse Report This Comment Date: October 18, 2022 11:57AM
Game on.
