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Originally Posted by chillibowl
from the article:
'Research presented at the conference showed that electric racing cars could be responsible for twice the level of carbon emissions as hybrid racing cars, because of the amount produced when building the batteries.'
also would like top hear more on this. on one hand, what he says about batteries doesn't surprise me at all, but on the other hand, dont hybrid cars also use batteries which i am assuming also present this same problems as the electric car batteries he is talking about?
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At the risk of going OT, hybrid road cars have quite small batteries relative to most pure EVs so that lessens their carbon used for production. Interestingly Mazda stated recently during the preview of their first pure EV that they will only fit a small battery pack in order to get the ‘life’ carbon emissions to match comparable ICE models...... But we digress.
