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Might as well link this here:

https://electrek.co/2020/02/26/tesla...massive-scale/

Tesla is having a battery investor day in April. Looks like they are on to something.

Originally Posted by Vman455

Do you know which study? The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated 39,000 miles to carbon-parity for a full-size EV compared to a gas car in a dirty-grid state in 2015. The appendices detail their assumptions and methodology for each car type, and size examples.

I'll look it up tonight if I remember.

EDIT: Found the Ted Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1E8SQde5rk

The takeaway is that a 120 mile range EV will begin emitting less lifetime CO2 than a comparable ICE after 80k miles. A 400 mile range EV would need to be driven 450k miles to emit less CO2 than a comparable ICE.

Then I just stumbled onto this Bjorn video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xh_VRrnMU

Then there's the more optimistic video from EE saying 2-8 years of driving for an EV to beat an ICE in CO2 emissions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM