great to see everyone's doing what they can to fight climate change https://www.motor1.com/news/267344/hennessey-performance-unleashes-goliath-dominate/ …pic.twitter.com/HmDY6e8G4R
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One reason is that high-performance gas-powered cars tend to get poor consumption even when not using the high-performance, while high-performance electric doesn't have the same problem to the same extent.
There's some extra weight (bigger battery, second motor, etc) in the electric. I don't have good data on this, but it does seem like 'performance' ICE cars have come with better everyday efficiency over time.
The emissions aren't just lower. They are an order of magnitude lower. The lifespan of a new ICE vehicle is fifteen years and emits carbon all throughout that time. So much that - sometimes - regular commutes in in efficient cars is worse than a flight.
Where are your numbers coming from? This contradicts the three sources I looked up when having the discussion in the other sub-thread. See https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html …, for example, which is 2.5x but for all vehicles, and EVs are probably on average lighter across the fleet.
Discourse on the topic too often ignores all aspects beyond consumption rate of fossil fuels. "Moving 5000+ lbs worth of car to transport a single person is _fundamentally_ inefficient and wasteful independent of engine type" is a bitter pill to swallow for many.
Personally, I like to see people buying them simply because electrifying transport is a precondition to tackling climate change. One hopes that non-luxury models will be a bit more reasonably engineered though.
The energy is coming increasingly from renewables, and batteries will be recycled.
I don’t remember the original paper I came across before deciding on a BEV, but this seems on par:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827118309570 …
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