• CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.net
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      I think in the west, they’re overhyped as a solution in their own right. But they are an essential step; to achieve full decarbonisation, combustion engines have to go.

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        I dunno, just think it’s a form of green washing. It’s not like there has been a tremendous shift in how we’re producing electricity, we’re still using coal and fossil fuels.

        The only positive is that carbon emmissions from cars are lowered but those are somewhat offset by the increase in electricity production.

        Edit: And if the environmental benefits aren’t there, there is zero reason to pick evs over traditional vehicles. Awful to drive, at least in my experience.

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          It’s green washing if it’s touted as the best strategy to combat climate change, which china doesn’t do rhetorically or with policy. China has over a billion people, and while they have advanced greatly with public transportation, people are still gonna keep driving. They can either keep burning gas or switch to EVs while China continues to make progress with other forms of renewable/sustainable energy. Not to mention other developing countries currently drive diesel vehicles which China seeks to replace.

          Meanwhile, the US has resisted highly rated Chinese EVs and every form of renewable energy and not interested in public transportation, and instead they give Elon billions of dollars to jack off and make memes. They are not serious in anything except greenwashing.

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              This is true today, but EVs can be recharged by solar and wind power just as much as by coal power, no? Doesn’t an EV unshackle the concept of a car from the concept of burning fossil fuels, even if they are not practically separated today?

              Don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate cars. But there’s no putting the toothpaste back into the tube, and I don’t think we can complain that China is underinvesting in alternate forms of transportation.

              Just one cantaloupe’s thoughts

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                No need to be snarky. You read my comment and then replied not addressing any of my points, as if you hadn’t registered them.

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                  puzzled

                  china doesn’t view EVs as the primary solution

                  China is progressing towards other, more sustainable forms of energy and transportation

                  the US is not interested in any single alternative

                  while most Chinese takes climate change seriously

                  Not sure what more you want from me

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                    china doesn’t view EVs as the primary solution

                    Never said it did

                    China is progressing towards other, more sustainable forms of energy and transportation

                    What does that have to do with my comment about the viability of Evs?

                    the US is not interested in any single alternative

                    Not talking about the US

                    while most Chinese takes climate change seriously

                    Nothing to do with my comment. I’m not attacking China, chill

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              About 30% of energy in China is from sustainable sources, and that percentage gets higher every year.

              Because many EVs are charged during peak production times, the percentage saved by EVs is probably even higher. So you’re burning 30%+ less gas.

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              No need to be snarky. You read their comment and then replied not addressing any of their points, as if you hadn’t registered them.

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                I don’t need to address them because I don’t find any wrong with them, they just have nothing to so with what I’m saying

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              As tech improves it will get better. Itxs easier to build small scale individual uses right now. That is helping to develop batteries at scale which will eventually greatly improve efficiency of plants and will eventually have full scale solar arrays smart grids and battery plants. Peaking power and crap-it-all-ist generating on demand for maxinum short term profts is something that needs to change as a mindset.

              China is going to do it first. Once they put us to shame because we’re 20-50 years behind and then maybe we’ll get to what we should have done. But we need to be spanked and humiliated first.

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          even if the only benefit from EVs is future proofing and transferring carbon debt from the car to the power grid, that’s still a huge boon since you can reduce a power grid’s CO2 production

          the moment cold fusion is solved every single EV becomes near-zero emission, the same cannot be said for carbon emitting cars, and for that reason alone every country with the means to do it should be trying to make sure the future average citizen’s cars can run on electricity

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            Forget fusion, China already has a significant portion of its national electrical grid on solar or nuclear. And while those aren’t zero emission energy sources, they’re pretty damn close to it.

            There are significant forms of pollution and carbon emissions associated with manufacturing EVs, especially their batteries, but between all of this China is both increasing their infrastructure and meaningful tackling emissions all at once.

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          Like Ryan said, it is green washing if it’s viewed as the end to climate change. The best solution is mass public transit and ending fossil fuel use.

          The efficiency of fossil fuel power plant production is greater than the efficiency of a single ICE car, so the overall emissions are lower, but emissions will grow the more people drive.

          Now if the power source changes from fossil fuels, then the emissions go down a lot, except for what is needed to exploit resources to make the cars and the power production.

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            it is green washing if it’s viewed as the end to climate change.

            I don’t think this is the definition of green washing. Something doesn’t have to be the be all and end all solution to climate change to be a form green washing.

            The efficiency of fossil fuel power plant production is greater than the efficiency of a single ICE car, so the overall emissions are lower, but emissions will grow the more people drive.

            I think this is a reply that would change my mind on the effectiveness of evs and would like to see any studies that proove this.

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                Though I get a feeling you’re just trying to be anti-China for some reason or other.

                This is what happens when you’re on a hair trigger about everything China. I’m not anti-China.

                • Maybe, but this is pretty basic stuff that you’re asking others to Google after a rough start to the thread making it seem like China’s approach deserved the same derision as western approaches without any real knowledge on the subject. That behavior is all too common with reactionaries.

                  Just be better in the future, either avoid the western anti-Chinese BS that taught you this line of reasoning or think skeptically about claims that China is just as bad or worse on climate change. And Google once you get pushback instead of the innocent “I just need someone to source me claims” act. If you don’t find the info, then ask. I found the result I shared with you by googling “energy efficiency of EVs”, so not like this was hard work or something

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                  It was one thing when you made your initial comments. But at this point, you are just splitting hairs.

                  It is just a fact that evs reduce emissions compared to ices, and will reduce them even further in the future given the track china is on.

                  Like even you argue that the better solution is public transit, china has been developing that too. Or say you have a problem with steel production, or concrete manufacturing, or literally every major source of pollution, Chinese industry is fucking working on it and making progress quickly.