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Originally Posted by nik-
Power to charge EV's needs to be generated. It's not X% less petrol cars = X% less GHG
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This is a little bit unsourced. Moreso hearsay from a trusted individual, but;
I understand that road vehicles are roughly 25% of GHG emissions, and that EVs are roughly 1/3 GHG intensive over their entire lifecycle removing all gar vehicles is an opportunity that represents roughly 15%-20% total emissions reduction.
Obviously there is no path to zero some very basic processes like tiling soil for farms have emissions...simply put we are going to keep doing somethings, what we need is an equilibrium where natural or artificial carbon negative processes offset whatever emissions are still happening. So cutting ~1/6th is a big deal on the path to that.