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points by lysace 12 hours ago | 0 comments

I was curious, so I looked it up: 75% of electricity generation in Mexico comes from fossil fuels, mostly methane/etc gas.

https://www.iea.org/countries/mexico/electricity

[–] freeone3000 12 hours ago

Meaning electric cars at minimum 25% cleaner than an internal combustion vehicle.

[–] avidiax 12 hours ago

There is path loss to consider. I would imagine that large scale electricity generation is more efficient than small scale ICE engines, and EVs have regeneration, so probably the EVs still come out ahead.

And the emissions can be more easily controlled/scrubbed at the large scale.

[–] goodpoint 12 hours ago

It's much better that than: ICE are way more inefficient and therefore polluting than burning fossils in power plants.

It is well proven that even with electricity made 100% from coal an EV is still better than an ICE.

[–] lysace 12 hours ago

Not necessarily, if you include the supply chain of the BEV? (I assume.)

[–] tencentshill 12 hours ago

Still significantly lower over vehicle lifetime

https://theicct.org/publication/electric-cars-life-cycle-ana...

[–] iknowstuff 12 hours ago

Even the worst ev driven off coal nets out to less emissions in its lifetime than gas cars. this has been known and well studied for like a decade. Keep up!

Also their LFP batteries are extremely simple and recyclable forever.

[–] lysace 12 hours ago

Okay then, with that confidence you simply must be correct.

[–] triceratops 12 hours ago

Then you have to include the supply chain of the ICE vehicle too.

[–] lanthissa 12 hours ago

lumping those all together is missing half the point, ng in at least in the us where its a by product of oil extraction is a huge step up from coal/oil and will be with us for a very long time