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Electric car battery, own or rent???
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"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
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Are you certain "
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car. |
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"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
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Are you certain
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car."
What about the environmental impact of mining lithium?
And the transportation of said lithium? |
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By *Man1263Man
over a year ago
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"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
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Are you certain
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car."
Which uses more resources.
A car thats 15 years old, or one that has to be built using all new materials?
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"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
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Are you certain
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car."
That excludes the disposal of end of life batteries though which decimated the environmentally friendly claim of electric cars. |
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"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
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Are you certain
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car.
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Which uses more resources.
A car thats 15 years old, or one that has to be built using all new materials?
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Not really a fair comparison, if nobody bought new cars there won't be any used ones to buy either.
Also, most of all cars are recyclable whether they're running on fossil fuels or electricity.
Cal |
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"Personally, I'd love to see manufacturers working on a universal battery. These could then be easily swapped at the motorway services rather than recharging. "
But you don't know how someone has treated that battery with charging discipline etc, it would be like changing an engine that's been well maintained with one that could have been ragged |
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By *Man1263Man
over a year ago
Stockport |
"which would be the best option??
Petrol its greener
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Not by a mile
----
Are you certain
According to the many studies, the lifetime environmental impact of a PEV is roughly half that of an equivalent petrol car.
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Which uses more resources.
A car thats 15 years old, or one that has to be built using all new materials?
Not really a fair comparison, if nobody bought new cars there won't be any used ones to buy either.
Also, most of all cars are recyclable whether they're running on fossil fuels or electricity.
Cal"
It is fair.
Which is more harmful?
You can't just ignore the fact that you have to recharge the battery, and guess what, that too use's resource's.
Just look at a wind farm.
Has to be new stainless steel (for the bearings etc) new fibreglass (can't use recycled fibreglass). So that's more damage that an old petrol car.
Just goes on.
But as said. Rent.
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