Negative press all over the place

Taxpayers have paid billions of dollars to promote electric cars which have done nothing to benefit those who are footing the bill. Affluent buyers of cars like Tesla get tax credits of $7,500 each, but there is no evidence that electric cars are helping the environment. Despite the lack of benefits of electric cars, the media continues to hype the sector with GM now promising a Tesla-killing Chevy Bolt.

I expect that the Bolt will be as unimpressive as the Volt.

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Woosie said:

Since I've never seen or done a complete analysis of relative impacts to the environment for creating, producing, equipping, maintaining, and disposing of a ICE versus a BEV, the quoted person can state whatever they want.

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Woosie said:

I've never seen or done a complete analysis of relative impacts to the environment for creating, producing, equipping, maintaining, and disposing of a ICE versus a BEV

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when driven over 120,000 km,
the greenhouse gas potential based on the European electricity mix
amounts to 10.4 t of CO2 equivalent. By contrast, the gasoline-driven
smart produces 14.4 t of CO2 equivalent. When the overall usage stage
is taken into account, the smart fortwo electric drive is found to release
28 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than its gasoline-driven counterpart.
Viewed over the entire life cycle, the contribution to the greenhouse
effect made by the smart fortwo electric drive with renewably
generated electricity is almost 60 percent less than with comparable
gasoline-driven vehicles.

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