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Use this tag for question about cars, trucks and other road transport.

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Did car and oil companies actively try to suppress electric cars' development?

Mostly, it's the cost of the car itself, not any externalities. High-density batteries cost a lot of money for the amount of energy they store - especially in comparison to gas - and cheap batteries h …
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Shouldn't an electric car be thermodynamically at a disadvantage towards one with a combusti...

I'm coming into this discussion a few years late, but I wanted to address an issue that others have not: You speak of the thermodynamics of a gasoline engine over an electric motor. Here are the phys …
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Are electric cars beneficial to the environment compared to low consumption modern cars?

If you can install solar panels on your roof, then yes. If you're getting your power from the grid, then no. Keep in mind, that the solution to CO2 emissions isn't "should we make all cars electric, …
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Does 80-90% of the environmental and health damage a car causes come from manufacturing?

This is true, but under some very specific, worst-case scenario, hand-picked circumstances that the author wants to use to make their product look especially good. That specific set of circumstances i …
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