Classic Cars greener than electric?

[tr6nitjulius]

Classic Cars Are Greener Than Electric Vehicles: Study

Well, how about that…

autos.yahoo.com

L.A. may ban gas stations

Los Angeles may ban new gas stations to combat climate change

LA city leaders are looking to prevent new gas stations from opening up as the nationwide push continues to get more electric cars on the road.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Basil]

My classic is Light Blue.

 

[NutmegCT]

My classic is Light Blue.

Mine was too -

Hard to tell about electric vs ICE. Consider the pollution from the factories in the 1960s, vs the pollution from the manufacture and disposal of today's electric car batteries ... hard to tell.

 

[DrEntropy]

Considering longevity of ICE cars, the pollution of those days has likely long ago dissipated, today's processes are much more controlled WRT pollutants. As for the EV vehicles, the toxic nature of depleted Li-Ion battery carcasses is not likely to be nearly as benign over time.

 

[mikephillips]

The big question is the amount of pollution from the power plants required to keep them changed I think. While solar and wind contribute to the grid, most is still burning fossil fuels of some kind and could increase as the draw on the grid for changing increases. So we could argue that rather than cutting emissions all we're doing in the short run at least, is moving it somewhere else.

 

[Dee]

Sprite and B are British racing green, XKE is gunmetal gray. Two outta three ain’t bad.
Fixing climate is easy—— Plant more trees! The corn fields in my county reduce more CO than “All” the USA wind and solar fields combined.

 

[John Turney]

The argument seems to be that if you don't drive your car, it doesn't pollute. But, I can truly say my classic Austin Healey is green:

 

[waltesefalcon]

Considering longevity of ICE cars, the pollution of those days has likely long ago dissipated, today's processes are much more controlled WRT pollutants. As for the EV vehicles, the toxic nature of depleted Li-Ion battery carcasses is not likely to be nearly as benign over time.

I couldn't agree with you more. Lithium ion batteries are nasty things to dispose of.

 

[NutmegCT]

Reading the original article as linked to Motorious, note that "the study" is only one study. Easy to pick and choose your references, and even easier to apply that one study to the world in general. Both are flagrantly poor ideas.

And as "classic" cars (whatever that really means) are driven fewer miles per year than modern cars, and much much fewer miles per year than today's electric vehicles, seems the apples to oranges idea is very very true here!

On a related tack, the opening paragraph of the Yahoo article describes a lot of folks these days!

"Usually their eyes are bugging out, spittle’s flying out of their mouth, and they’re absolutely filled with self-righteousness but few facts."

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