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@paulg would like to see it compared to the environmental cost of a non-electric car too, as part of the balance.

@paulg The switch *will* happen. So the cost is already sunk, why wait then?

@paulg That is a great question. I bet @elonmusk might know the answer.

@paulg depends on the location, in Alberta for example we are still powering our grid with 40% coal. Long time until we are net ahead

@paulg @swolebeau virtually never based on current battery tech since they’re moving away from nihm to save weight

@paulg If we had a set of taxes on environmental harm (e.g. a carbon tax) you could just look at TCO.

@paulg biggest factor in determining that would be the way the electricity is produced. If from coal/gas, then no real advantage.

@datarade @paulg Except it assumes an all EV world would be charged at night rather than from daytime solar, which is mostly wrong.

@paulg I drive 70+ miles, 1.5 + hrs a weekday. Will my productivity during this time be taken into account?

@paulg somewhere I read enegy intensity of making a computer is far greater thank that of making a car, doing it sum up making a hybrid?