"Over the course of 267 miles (430 km) and 8 hours, the car used 2.6 miles/kWh (23.7 kWh/100 km), bearing in mind that those miles were all driven in Germany and include running at the car's top speed of 140 mph (225 km) on derestricted autobahns."
ie. around 100 mpg. It is not even close to "waste", it is saving the planet in maximum comfort.
It is 100 % waste and you don't "save" the planet. Saving the planet = no car. Yeah, an EV is less wasteful than an ICE. Just don't think you save the planet.
Saving the planet = maximum one kid per couple.
Worldwide, we are already close to the replacement rate and projections see us falling below by 2070.
Most of the population growth is actually not "new kids getting born", it's "folks getting older than the generations before".
So, if population growth is your concern, don't tell people to have less kids. Tell them to stop getting so old.
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free is a polemical 2002 novel by American philosopher Ken Wilber, principally designed to explain Wilber's integral theory and to explain his concept of "Boomeritis". Wilber characterizes this as the deadly combination of a modern egalitarian worldview with a deep unquestioned narcissism commonly held by Baby Boomers and their children in the green meme of Spiral Dynamics, as opposed to Wilber's universal integralism.
Do whatever you can. The most effective strategies are often the least interesting.
Of course an infinite supply of green energy would solve everything, but unfortunately that's not available. We're not supplying enough green electricity to cover current demands, much less enough to cover the roughly doubled demand if we were to shift all transportation to EVs.
So: it’s complicated. It’d take me over ten years to do 100,000 kilometres, so probably the best car is the one I already have.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
It's less wasteful than the ICE equivalent but in no way can it be described as saving the planet. If you are really serious about saving the planet then you buy a bicycle.
bicycle is 100miles/kwh. Human body is 25% efficient, so it is just 25 miles/kwh for the energy coming in the food - so for all the bicycle disadvantages (low speed, open to elements, no meaningful cargo capacity) it is only meager 10x difference with that 2+ tons BMW i4 (and only 7x difference with my Prius Plugin).
The kwh in human food is much dirty than kwh for electric car, especially when electricity comes from renewables. The food requires tremendous expenditure of energy to produce it as well as it causes tremendous impact on the planet ecosystem due to agriculture.
On a sidenote, >10% of conventional fuel is made via agriculture, and seemingly around 5% of electricity production in the US, 10% in EU28[1].
[1] https://www.bpb.de/nachschlagen/zahlen-und-fakten/europa/751...
If you include nuclear then around 60% of the generated electricity was produced with low CO2 emissions.
As opposed to about 15kW for 90km/h.
From https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...
The important takeaway is that greener electricity grid will help both the emissions from manufacturing, as well as emissions from usage
The big benefit electric cars have is obviously that they can use renewable energy to charge, which reduces the carbon intensity of their electricity. But that's not a given - it depends hugely on location.