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I feel like the only way electric cars can be truly “environment friendly” is if the carbon produced is captured at the plants.
Not sure if it’s at all possible, though.
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[Yes, though it’s complicated](https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-efficient-carbon-capture-and-storage#:~:text=Most%20carbon%20capture%20technologies%20aim,smokestacks%20from%20reaching%20the%20atmosphere). Basically just like with carbon capture from the atmosphere there’s issues when you want to capture all of it because it’s not -just- co2, plenty of oxygen, nitrogen and nitrogen byproducts, and water vapor to sort through.
No consumption is environmentally friendly, but electric cars produce far less pollution than a traditional car, even powered by coal. [Like the other point, this is just physics, and is because a steam turbine is so much more efficient than Internal Combustion.](https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/electric-vehicles-use-half-the-energy-of-gas-powered-vehicles/) Because the tech exists, we should probably just implement the efficiency gains rather than question if it can ever be *perfect* while our climate gets worse.
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