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I don't think so. The added impact of battery manufacturing is quite small compared to the impact of manufacturing any vehicle, and that in turn is a fairly small proportion of the total impact of a vehicle over its lifetime.

Only looking at driving, a Prius emits about 238 grams of CO2 per mile. A reasonably efficient EV charging from the US's current generation mix emits about 150 grams/mile. If we assume they'll last 200,000 miles on average, that's about 17 tonnes more CO2 for the Prius. The EV produces in the neighborhood of 6 tonnes more CO2 during manufacture compared to a traditional gas car, and this advantage will be slightly smaller compared to a hybrid.




I'm not sure why this guy doing a state by state breakdown comes to a different conclusion than you have.

https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM

I can find you more sources that say the same thing he does.


Do you have something that’s not a video? They’re very time consuming, and in my experience the odds are small that a video used as a source in an online discussion is actually worth a damn.


Look at the map in the video around 9:20




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