In China, it’s even worse. If all of Hong Kong and China drive EV instead of gasoline powered cars today, our CO2 problem would be much worse.[/quote]
The argument ignores one of the main benefits of EV: it centralizes power generation at the plant. It is much easier to replace a single CO2 plant (or install carbon scrubbers/storage on them) than it is to replace millions of cars.
It also ignores the efficiency of EVs. Electric motors are about 80% efficient, compared to about 20% for combustion engines. So even if EVs are burning CO2 at the plant, they’re burning a *lot* less of it.
The equation only improves with time as CO2 plants get replaced with renewables. Meanwhile, those combustion engines will just continue to spew CO2.[/quote]
Did not know ICE is only 20% efficient.
So essentially we arelooking at the following:
–energy is used to explore and extract oil.
–energy is used to transport the oil.
–energy is used to refine the oil.
–energy is used to transport the refined product.
–refined final product is burnt at 20% efficiency.
Not to mention energy used to support authoritarian regimes with horrid human rights record to allow this extremely ineffective system to continue without disruption.
