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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (33853)	6/21/2011 1:03:56 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

>According to a piece posted on theaustralian.com, A peice of what? Shit, most likely. > 50 per cent higher This figure is utterly ridiculous. Those figures are probably grossly inflated. Figures are like 0.7 kW-h energy required to produce a 1 kWh battery. The Volt has a 16 kWh battery. 16 kWh is for ONE charge cycle. A battery like that would last for 1000's of charges (say 2000) over a 10 year lifecycle. So, doing the math: 0.716 kwH/2000 100 = 0.6% More accurately, the Volt would have 0.6% increase in emissions due to energy required to manufacture Li Batteries. Factories could use green energy sources and reduce this figure even lower. > electric vehicle market share may only be 5% or less by 2020 We'll see abou this. If the oil lobby gets their way, this may be a fact.