How about some electric car battery numbers?
I am not a massive fan of Elon Musk. I like his ideas but not the fact he uses government (ergo public) money to achieve his unprofitable ends.
So you are a eco green monkey and spend 85 grand on a tesla..(you could spend 30k on a tesla s but it might never arrive).. Now you think ..I have saved the planet.. my carbon footprint just shrank massively.. I personally am helping reduce man's impact on that 0.04% of our atmosphere called CO2.
Lets look at the numbers eh..
the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute carried out some research so I dont have to. Before hitting the road a Tesla model S has generated the equivalent of 17.5 tons of CO2..(to put that in perspective a round trip by plane by one person from stockholm to NY generates 600kilos)
Or to put it in my Vauxhall Zafira language.. If I drive my car 10,000 miles per year (which give Ive been to wellingborough and back 4 times in 24 hrs is easy) I will produce 2.6 tonnes of CO2 per year. That is 6.3 years or 63000 miles to get to the point of the 17.5 tonnes used to get a tesla on the road.
Thought for the day.. Tesla batteries are produced at Electric Drive in Sparks, Nevada. As of july there were 3000 cars on average parked there per day with a 23 mile drive to the nearest city of Reno.. That means those cars are producing 57 tonnes of CO2 per day (20805 tonnes per year) just to make the batteries.
I'm going out to hug a tree
