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Sales targets meant to ensure automakers ramp up EV production to keep up with demand, says source
Sales targets meant to ensure automakers ramp up EV production to keep up with demand, says source
Isn’t the lifetime difference something like 30% better than ICE? It’s definitely better, but it isn’t significantly better.
Turns out bringing 3000+ pounds of steel with you everywhere you go is ineffecient regardless how it is powered.
I’ve heard cars described as metal overcoats. People slap them on for the slightest reason.
I’ll use my two, similar sized cars as an example (Subaru Outback and Hyundai Ioniq 5). Typical driving gets me around 8 L/100km in the Outback and 20 kWh/100km in the Ioniq. This NRCan site gives a conversion factor of 8.9 kWh/L of gasoline.
So, the Ioniq, at 20 kWh/100km is then about 72% more efficient than the Subaru at its equivalent 71.2 kWh/100km.
Even when considering lifetime emissions, EVs still have roughly 50% less emissions than ICE vehicles.
However, going back to my original point, person vehicles are still incredibly inefficient overall, given the potential alternatives.