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Guru
To help you get your figures right in future - I'll summarise for you.Where does the electricity come from ? Wind power ? Diesel gensets ...........and more diesel gensets ....... and even more diesel gensets .... or green electricity as EON call it ......
If your happy with children mining the essential minerals for batteries in the Congo ....... ?????
According to the life cycle assessment, the C40 Recharge has a CO2 footprint of around 27 tonnes over its entire life cycle if the charging current comes exclusively from clean energy sources. If, on the other hand, the vehicle owner uses the average global energy mix, in which about 60 per cent of electricity is generated from fossil fuels, emissions rise to as much as 50 tonnes of CO2 – with the EU-28 electricity mix, the figure is still 42 tonnes of CO2.
The Volvo XC40 with combustion engine, for example, has 59 tonnes of CO2 over its life cycle. The so-called “end-of-life” emissions and the share of production in the Volvo factories are the same regardless of the type of drive.
So it does depend on the mix of electricity. I'm on a renewables only tariff - so if that was my Volvo - it would be less than 50% of the carbon footprint of the ICE version.
And nobody should be happy about kids mining - but where's your outrage for laptops, phones, bike torches ? It's the same battery technology.
Don't forget - petrol isn't nice for kids either - not when its oil or when it's burnt and clogging their lungs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42168902
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...fumes-children-health-air-pollution-emissions