Are electric vehicles actually cleaner than combustion-powered cars and trucks? Critics castigate the cleanliness of EVs while proponents of battery-powered cars and trucks proclaim they’ll save the planet. We’ll answer that thorny – and complicated – question in this episode of EV Basics.
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Data Sources:
U.S. DOE 2020 vehicle comparison
U.S. EPA Power Profiler
Argonne National Laboratory data
MIT Climate Portal – EVs vs. gas-powered cars
MIT Climate Portal – CO2 emitted from producing batteries
Pounds of CO2 emissions per gallon of gas
Estimated annual vehicle emissions
Assumptions for annual vehicle emissions chart
MIT mileage estimate
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0:00 Introduction
0:42 CO2 Pollution
2:39 How We Know EVs are Cleaner
3:17 Average Power Grid Mix
4:01 Research from Argonne National Laboratory
4:53 Pollution from EV Batteries
6:29 Pollution from Gasoline
7:15 Other Pollutants
7:37 Annual CO2 from EVs & Gas Vehicles
8:26 Conclusions
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