drcarric2650
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Seems a bit like saying, if I pollute, it doesn't amount to much... but you need to multiply that by a few billion people.I don't fool myself into thinking that I'm "doing something for the environment" by purchasing a new $80K truck. I want to own a car for lifestyle reasons (skiing, hiking, adventuring...) and that kind of car needs to be able to store my gear, haul my dogs, and power through snow/mud/etc. This is the first electric car that can do that effectively and it happens to look pretty cool too. That's enough for me.
The only way we meaningfully impact the environment is through much more widespread, coordinated action. Norway heavily taxes ICE cars and subsidizes electrics. Share of EVs in US is about 2% and in Norway it's 60%. The Nissan Leaf is the best seller there -- a modest city-dwelling grocery-getter. (They don't have nearly the same number of oil/gas lobbyists crafting their policies.)
The US contributes the 2nd most carbon in the world (behind China). About 30% of what we create is from the transportation sector, which also includes boats and trains. Each of our individual decisions will have so little impact that it's barely worth trying to calculate. If we early-ish adopters help to subsidize the charging network, drive down the cost of EVs, increase competition for Tesla, and make EVs "cool" then maybe that's worth something.
I personally want to avoid anything that continues to prop up oil/gas/coal, so I'm thrilled to go electric but I'm not about to try to calculate the individual impact nor worry about it.
However, having said that, I like to concentrate on what you did say, these EV's beat any ICE rivals hands down, and that is what will sway the world in the end.
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