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MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says

4 days ago by sanitation to c/technology

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MIT's researches found that EVs save 40%–60% of emissions compared to gas cars, with that going up to 90% in urban driving.
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ComradeRachel 38 points 3 days ago

The batteries do contain rare minerals like lithium but these can be recovered and recycled. EVs can be charged with solar, wind and other renewables even tho many places in the USA still burn coal or natural gas.

Once you burn gasoline in your ICE vehicle then it’s gone, it turns into gasses that go into the atmosphere and can’t easily be recovered into anything of much use.

EVs are the future and we all know it. Gasoline will continue to become more expensive and more difficult to extract.

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TheMinister 16 points 3 days ago

I’d argue with the level of shit were in with the climate, the no cars lifestyle should be the future.

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ComradeRachel 8 points 3 days ago

It might be in a few nations with strong public transit already like Japan and a number or European nations but honestly idk if it will ever happen in the USA at least not in my life time.

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Folstar 7 points 3 days ago

We went from zero cars to everything covered in cars in a lifetime, we can go back in a lifetime.

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ripcord 3 points 3 days ago

OK but that's about as realistic in the next 40+ years as genetically engineered flying pigs.

Incremental progress is good.

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EatMyPixelDust 4 points 3 days ago

Then I guess surviving the climate collapse will be just as realistic.

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TheMinister 0 points 3 days ago

Incrementalism is what has killed us. Incrementalism plus crony capitalism equals absolute zero.

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