Does this Hybrid Produce Less CO2 than an Electric Car over it's Lifecycle?

The Mazda 2 Hybrid along with the identical Toyota Yaris Hybrid are the most economical petrol powered cars I have ever driven. But when you take into account how much CO2 is produce over it's entire lifecycle including manufacturing, does it produce less or more CO2 than an equivalent electric car?

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00:00 The car
00:24 City drive
03:53 Manufacturing CO2
06:13 Average car life
07:28 City drive results
09:00 70mph drive
10:34 Mining petrol and diesel
11:36 70mph drive results
12:26 Country road drive
15:37 Country road results
16:04 CO2 results compared
21:56 Misleading argument

[Conservator.]

You are an excellent educator! And a completely self-educated one, I believe, as well. 👌👍

[artemkatelnytskyi]

Very nuanced discussion. Something to think about.

[snurbs]

I passed my driving test yesterday because of you man tysm

[ofah]

With some amazing mpg readouts from the corolla and the mazda 2 in your videos (even at motorway speeds) is it fair to say they are genuinely now in position to challenge the assumption that anyone doing 20, 000 miles up and down a motorway isnt just going to have to default to diesel? Great video you dont see many people driving hybrids showing real mpg in different scenarios. Usually its reviewers reading off the spec sheet!

[chrisbaxter]

I'm a driving instructor in Devon and currently use a Toyota C-HR, obviously bigger have the aircon on all day and don't often switch off I see 58 mpg overall

[muhammadhaseeb]

I passed my driving test today and your vidoes helped a lot 😎

[Drew-Dastardly]

I refuse to buy any modern car since they all follow Apple and John Deere's anti consumer anti "right to repair" tactics, like serializing components that require a dealership to tap some keys on a computer and charge £500 a time. They have gotten a legal loophole around the popular OBD II and scanners with access to the other car computers using the diagnostic port by introducing wireless diagnostics for the key car computers required for repair, and no longer exposing them on the OBD port. They are introducing ridiculous stuff like subscriptions for heated seats and the need to be connected to the "cloud" all the time. Feck that noise!

[thecrow]

The 5000 tonnes of extra co2 emissions for the EV is fair, that would equate to around 37k miles of driving before the EV reaches its tipping point, after that the EV is cleaner than an ICE vehicle. Most studies also conclude 37k miles is the tipping point. At 18:24 You ignore the mining and transport of fuel but do calcute a 25% loss in power delivery for the EV which already makes this comparison not really fair, mining and refining fuel adds AT LEAST another 25-30% to the total CO2 emissions which would make the EV around 50% less poluting during its lifetime than a very efficient hybrid (again, not a shocking result, that's what most studies show). In terms of energy usage the difference is just insane, almost 59.000Kwh for the petrol car and just slightly above 31000Kwh for the EV. I must admit that this hybrid is extremely efficient though but its no match for EV's, no matter how hard Toyota and Mazda scream they are.

[chrisblandford]

i went from an Audi q2 to a toyota yaris 2021 and did not regret it, the car is a Beast pupils are learning to drive in it and we get 85mpg av. i reset when i refuel about a week and a half.

[ricequackers]

The overarching theme from this is that the biggest effect comes from how much CO2 is emitted by the electricity grid. If the government invested heavily in nuclear and other zero emission sources, it would instantly make electric cars, their manufacturing and any process that relies on electricity far cleaner.

[electricalinput]

15:01 Toyota FJ cruiser! Those must be a rare sight, as I don't think those were ever sold new in GB.

[micheals]

Robert Llewellyn once said "theres plenty of electricity for EVs if you simple stopped refining oil!"

It takes about 1.28kwh to refine 1L of petrol... so an electric car can go about 5 miles on the energy to produce 1L of petrol. So just for the energy to produce petrol an EV could go 23 miles on the electricity to refine 1 gallon (4.54L) of petrol.

A car that does 23mpg uses the same amount of electricity as an EV!

[ObiePaddles]

Sadly the ‘Volvo’ study has been massively debunked as inaccurate and wildly overestimating the miles at which the break-even point is made between EVs and ICE cars.

[mgvideo]

I look forward to the video you are going to make about why people hate electric cars.

[VictorGoesElectric]

Volvo already published their findings on producing and offsetting higher CO2 emissions while producing EVs. Production of same size ICE as EV results in 70% less of CO2 created. To offset that difference, if we only use green energy to drive EV it will take 49k miles. When we take UK average green to non green energy it will take 77k miles to offset difference between both vehicles.
Assuming average life of vehicle is 125k miles, we are way greener driving EVs (and UK energy source is getting more eco friendly each year).

There is interesting video on Youtube on recycling batteries by british company. It’s very green way of doing it.

[johnkeepin]

Interesting to see the Mazda version; I’m used to the Toyota Yaris one made in November 2022. Similar figures to your experience. It’s on 17” wheels with 205/45R tyres with Bridgestone grade C tyres.

Looking at the sums re emissions, it looks as if you were using those for 100% mineral petrol, but now a lot of it can be down to 90% (E10). Alright, 10% ethanol is the limit, and it varies a bit, depending on where that comes from, e.g. sugar beet, or animal grade wheat. But if you regard bioethanol as being “renewable”, you could drop around 5% or more from the total.

I came across a Corsa e recently, as my neighbour had one on loan from a dealer. Worth noting that it’s almost 2 tonnes weight! Bound to have an effect on efficiency overall, depending on how it’s used, plus the wear and tear on the tyres and the roads.

[ThisIsStupid]

One of the biggest bonuses of full electric cars for me is that it gets the poisonous combustion emissions off the streets where we live.

[michaelwilkinson]

Thesre is the moral aspect too regarding manufacturing. As on how the Cobalt is mined.

[elenabob]

26:08 no it isn't a huge difference because many of components are in house and produced locally with materials that respect EU regulations and this is why automakers are asked to provide this number to authorities in the future.

[josephmarsh]

Another great video indeed. I'm looking forward to seeing your video on why people hate electric cars. Of course, I'm not a hater of EVs, I'm just not a fan for a few reasons on certain EVs. There's actually a few on the market I love, but the reason I'm not a fan of them is, well, I just can't afford any of them 😅. The only real reason I don't own an EV is because I can't afford one, have nowhere to charge at home, and even some chargers in my area are very unreliable and expensive to use, and I'm just not really interested in buying another car right now.