Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "Bloomberg Originals"
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The Union of Concerned Scientists have already answered and debunked this myth over a year ago.
From manufacture to recycling - electric cars, compared to ICE competitors, produce 50% less emissions in their 10 year life span on the current, nation-wide-mixed 2014 electricity grid.
This assumes a grid that will not change in those years. It does not take into account personal wind and solar sources that a large portion of US plug-in drivers have benefited from.
The comparison between China and India is bogus, at the very least, lacking information. China has regulated their car market so intensively, many EV advocates have seen it as too strong. All responding to a never ending smog and health crisis for hundreds of millions of its citizens, their response was to attack pollution at its source. Licence Plate lotteries, odd and even number days for registered cars, the lot didn't work. China then put more restrictions on ICEs, while removing barriers for domestic-made plug-ins, such as removing the $10,000 price to buy a registration plate and the years a car owner would wait to be granted to buy one.
India on the other hand has done nothing. It's only electric car maker, Mahindra (aka, Reva), is looking to more hopeful markets outside of India.
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What drivel, guys! This is far too rushed and misleading! Toyota has no car to sell yet, it's aiming between $50,000 to $100,00 with limited production to select Californian areas. The exact same story with its RAV4 EV and Fiat's 500e. They don't really want it existing at all.
None of these are actual competitors to the Model S. Seriously, the 500e? The closest competitor is the ELR and that's not an actual competitor. The only competitor was the Fisker Karma, a big, grandiose, desirable, high performance car. We just won't see that back in the next several months.
Would you compare a VW Golf GTI or a BMW 1 series to a fully fledged Audi A7 or A8, or a BMW 7 series? No, that's ridiculous. I might aswell say that the new and revised i-MiEV should be in this list as it has now gotten a lot cheaper, deep into the mid $10,000s.
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