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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (929510)4/7/2016 8:41:22 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) of 1577594
 
How in the world does the production of one car battery create just as much CO2 emissions as the burning of 1,400 gallons of diesel?


Have not seen definitive numbers - but they are big and made from a lot of expensive hard to mine materials that used a lot of diesel in their making.

Also of interest is the comparison of co2 on daily basis - this rebuttal says Tesla is from 50-70% the co2 as a regular gas car.

greencarreports.com

In an exhaustive 6,500-word article on the financial website Seeking Alpha, analyst Nathan Weiss lays out a case that the Model S actually has higher effective emissions than most large SUVs of both the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and smog-producing pollutants like sulfur dioxide.

As a 2013 Tesla Model S owner, I was shocked and concerned by his claims.

The carbon-friendliness of the electric grid, of course, varies wildly from region to region, depending upon the type of powerplants there.

Carbon summary

We've arrived at a number for the real-world effective CO2 emissions of a Model S of 292 g/mi. Admittedly, that's lot higher than Tesla claims on its website.

But worse than a Grand Cherokee? Hardly.

The V-6 Grand Cherokee's official EPA CO2 number is 479 g/mi when fitted with the smallest engine offered, a 3.6-liter V-6. The more powerful V-8 model logs in at a whopping 592 g/mi.
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