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Written by anlomedad on 2024-12-07 at 07:24

@GDS @janrosenow

CO2 well to wheel:

Benzin 3.140 kg / litre

Diesel 3.310 kg / litre

by Auke Hoekstra

https://innovationorigins.com/en/producing-gasoline-and-diesel-emits-more-co2-than-we-thought/

So within a few years, an electric car has amortisized its embedded CO2 compared to obsolete combustion engine.

However, e-cars are not the solution. On the contrary. I think you refer to the other impacts in your reply too: this form of mobility intrudes ever more into land carbon sink and harms biodiversity, it enables suburban sprawl with its high energy cost due to longer distances from A to B, and single family homes = high raw material use, then sealing soil changes hydrological cycle and emissions from land use change come on top of it all.

Not to forget tire ruboff that regularly kills Canadian salmon after heavy rain events with toxic levels of the anti-corosive 6PPD-quinone https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abd6951

And micro plastics from tires in our bodies and brains.

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