"Deloptes"  wrote

| True true - Tesla becomes green after >200000km if all goes well and you
do
| not replace the battery after 5y. Until then the best is diesel fuel - the
| one they want to ban, because it's engine is most efficient and green.
| I was shocked - there were studies - big studies - "they" refused to make
| public. Crazy!
|

I came across this report at one point:

https://theicct.org/publications/EV-battery-manufacturing-emissions

   Not as shocking as you're indicating, but certainly
questioning the "greenness" of electric. Both the battery
manufacture and the source of electricity are factors.

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