Will there not be just as much of a carbon footprint from mining materials to make batteries for all the new electric cars?
And all the precious metals that go into making electronics to make that car operate?
Plus the power generation associated with charging everyone’s vehicle.
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The ICE needs materials that have to be mined too. Steel isn’t really better than copper, silicon and lithium.
But the power generation alone is a huge game changer. Even if you’d fuel it 100% from coal powerplants you’d save CO² because a modern powerplant has roughly 40% efficiency (transport, battery, E-motor reduce that by 10% giving a total of 36%) and a ICE has less than 20% efficiency. And you can obviously get it from renewable sources too.
The main issue is that combustion loses efficiency when running in the wrong operation point. A powerplant will always run at it’s optimum RPM
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