So which car is really the more climate-friendly?
It is asked from the construction of the different cars about the use.
Is the internal combustion engine more eco-friendly in the beginning or is an electric vehicle the better car through and through?
while driving:
Electric car: 0 grams of CO2 per kilometer
Internal combustion car: between 100 - 140 grams of CO2 per kilometer. Diesel vehicles are significantly more environmentally friendly. However, an average value of 120 grams of CO2 is used for the comparison.
Point for the electric vehicle.
Refueling or charging:
Here it depends extremely on the country in which the electricity is produced. Germany is taken as a comparison country which still has a high proportion, in numbers over a third, of dirty coal-fired power plants.
It is extremely difficult to get exact figures, but one can say that the electric vehicle in this topic with a normal electricity mix emits about twice as much CO2 as has to be spent on a combustion engine.
However, the average consumption plays a major role, especially on the side of the electric vehicle.
Point for the combustion engine.
Vehicle production:
Electric car: The needed cobalt and lithium is extremely harmful to the environment and must not be approved. In production, the electric car is massively worse and this " deficit " must then be made up for through mileage.
Point for the combustion engine.
Recycling:
In this point, the electric car can score more points. Up to 60% of the valuable materials can be reused. This is environmentally friendly and the electric car can recover a lot of what was lost during production.
Point for the electric car.
Summary:
According to the ADAC study, the electric vehicle will always be the more climate-friendly car over its mileage.
But the numbers were surprising.
An average vehicle with a gasoline engine is overtaken at around 130'000km, a diesel even after around 220'000km.
Conclusions:
It can be expected that the electricity mix will improve significantly in the future. If only "green" electricity would be used, the combustion engine would be overtaken after about 40'000km!
In the future, the electric car will become more and more environmentally friendly and so the comparison will be more and more clearly in favor of the electric car.
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