Do electric cars really produce less CO2 than petrol cars? | Plug Life Television episode 28

Many people are concerned that the environmental impact of manufacturing an electric vehicle’s battery, and producing electricity to charge it, means that EVs work our more carbon intensive than a new petrol or diesel car, but is this true? To find out, we’ll pit the average new ICE against the average new EV, crunching the carbon numbers for battery manufacturing and electricity production and comparing those to the emissions from refining and burning fuel. Let’s see how clean an EV is today, and how clean it could really be.

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[offgridsolaruk]

One thing many forget is the engine oil in all ICE cars and its yearly oil change, that's a lot of oil in itself!

[andymohawk]

You do an amazing job of researching and presenting. What you do is of immeasurable importance. Thank you.

[bertlevis]

Very thorough, yet presented in such a way that the content is fully understood, thank you.

[rosskirkland]

Another excellent video Euan, thanks for sharing! :-)

[bruceharrison]

As usual Euan knocked it out of the park, good and proper. Many thanks.

[CarverElectric]

Excellent video, thank you. Need to re-watch this a few times to internalise everything.

[ipb]

Just found this channel. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you. Love the juxtaposition of the hi-tech subject and the ‘Plug Life’ typeface!

[ruaraidhmcdonald-walker]

Great episode Euan. Hope all's well. Cheers.

[benjaminford]

An excellent video. Clear presentation of factual information. Thank you very much.

[BenMitro]

Australia has very little green energy - coal, gas and minor renewable (20%) and the government is pushing for gas fired power plants and insistence on digging up coal and exporting it. Add to this our appetite for heavy diesel 4x4 utilities, we can safely assume that any savings UK is making, we here in Australia are squandering it by the bucket load.

[seanbranagh]

Excellent! Nothing I didn't already know but this video has still made me feel better when I step out of the house and see our Model 3 and our Leaf in the driveway :)

[ynskrug]

I'd say this myth was thouroughly debunked 👌

[mickwilson]

Brilliant as always Euan, economics and health the perfect storm

[IDann]

You can thank transport evolved for sending me over to this channel, well worth it.

[mooremob]

I thought you were very nice not including the Tanker operation they use bunker fuel which is the dirtiest fuel there is, a good informative video.

[juanjoevchannel]

good video, clear, I just suscribe :)

[nunusengatv]

Nice explanation, thanks for sharing this information

[rrtind]

Can you make a video factoring in the extra weight of an EV? More weight is likely to shorten the tyre life, making tyre replacement more frequent and tyre manufacture is likely a reasonably dirty process. Also more weight on the road shortens the useable life of the road, meaning more frequent resurfacing work. Re-tarmac-ing a road is also not likely to be a clean process. To bring balance to the argument, I appreciate an EV will likely be more frugal on brake pad and disk material usage courtesy of regenerative braking. So I’m not trying to pick on negatives for EVs or for petrol cars, I just think there is more that needs covering to bring a truer representation of the carbon footprint for both petrol vehicles and EVs. Well done on this video and hope you can make more great videos!

[hakantoptas]

Thanks a lot for the information. It may be a good idea to compare a new EV with converting the old ICE to EV.

[mikeyonwin]

I stopped watching at 2:08.
"Chassis" vs "Monocoque"?
Then I continued watching.
Your message at the end was "reduce the embodied carbon of your products, right from the off, and that makes them so much greener".
Very laudable.