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27-08-2024

Re: The Pros and Cons of an Electric Vehicle (EV)

I like the full torque and zero revs, but AGL website sates "Driving an EV, you eliminate the greenhouse gas and tailpipe emissions...". This is misleading because an EV on the showroom floor has a carbon footprint, 4 to 5 times that of an internal combustion engined car and you have to drive, of the order of 100,000 kilometres before the carbon footprint is equivalent to a diesel car. I mentioned this to a friend who recently purchased an EV and she was shocked and said "I had no idea". This is ...
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