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Old 03-26-2018, 04:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hayden55 View Post
So that means it takes 848.6 kWh of energy production to move your Ioniq one mile on average.
Wow, almost a megawatt hour for 1 mile??? That thing must have some amazing batteries .

Joking aside, a nice cradle to grave comparison of CO2 released vs the power mix in different regions is here:
Electric vehicles beat gasoline cars in cradle-to-grave emissions study

So, whatever gas mileage you would have to achieve in a gas or non-plugin hybrid car to equal an electric car in GG emissions, broken down by region.

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