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Why when counting CO2 emissions for petrol cars people only count what comes out of exhaust pipe and not whole petrol industry? Because for electric cars you counted almost complete process for petrol you missed a lot.

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That's a very fair point - obviously, I was just going with official quoted CO2/km figures for comparison sake, to basically show that certain power plants are so astronomically bad, that even the most efficient EV powered by them ends up being worse than the (quoted) CO2/km figures for petrol/diesel cars. That's not a an attack on electric cars, nor a defense of ICEs - just an attack in the idioicy of burning lignite for power.

I am completely with you. IMHO, it is because of easy numbers. Here's CO2 per km and here's Wh per km.

Also people (pushed by oil lobby??) not only forget whole pipeline (pun intended) of petrol industry, but are very concerned that couple hundred kg of batteries is worse than tens of thousands of liters of petrol burned over lifetime of a vehicle.

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