• Nobilmantis
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    1 year ago

    I think you missed the meaning of inefficency on this matter…

    While it is undeniable that electric cars have a better supply-to-engine energy efficency than combustion cars, you can understand that they are equiparated in the meme as “equally bad” if you think outside of the box labelled “rubber wheels on high friction asphalt transporting usually a single individual”.

    Compare that with a tram or a train, transporting multiple passengers with the same electric engine but also steel-on-steel friction on the wheels and the difference between an ICE and EV vehicle becomes a mere approximation error; god I can do the math for you if you want, but I bet even a disel bus with a lot of passengers has a better efficency/passenger ratio than an EV.

    So 1 electric car = 4 less carbon liquid fuelled cars worth of pollution.

    Also I think this is a bit misleading: if I buy an EV this won’t magically destroy 4 (where is this number from?) already existing carbon liquid cars, it merely means you avoided adding 1 other ICE car to the total.

    • eluvinar@szmer.info
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      1 year ago

      box labelled “rubber wheels on high friction asphalt transporting usually a single individual”.

      so, a box I keep my bike in? :D