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Originally Posted by cheswick
I posted earlier in this thread a well sourced video on carbon use for entire life of vehicle (including manufacturing). For typical usage electric vehicles will emit less carbon over their lifetimes, with the possible exception of places that use coal for electricity.
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I could definitely see the argument against EVs in a place that burns coal for electricity, but depending on where the coal plants are it could still be a benefit... if they're somewhere out in the sticks, you could be displacing exhaust from hundreds of thousands of cars to a giant smokestack located a long way away from the city. That's still a potential benefit. But with hydro there's no issue at all, at least if the hydro infrastructure already exists as it does in Manitoba.
I have no dog in this fight personally... in theory I like the environmental benefits of EVs, but I will pick whatever is less expensive in the long run. And for now that appears to be ICEs.