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I mean I’m sitting on an average of 267 wH pm for the Model Y over 13,000 miles in the last year so that’s definitely not the case for all large EVs. It’s more efficient that our Zoe which is sitting at roughly 315wH pm.
There is absolutely no way that a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is more efficient than a Tesla Model 3 or Model Y or even a BMW iX for that matter over its lifetime.
Sounds like I did get you to bite a little on your funny car 😬
Soul
They did when I used to do LCA. You have two issues with current large, longer-range EV vehicles:
1) there's a circa 100kWh lithium battery onboard and this weighs in the order of 700kg. This is enormously energy-intensive and polluting to produce, compared to anything previously made by the car industry. It's an enormous one-off environmental impact that hugely eats into any benefits of electricity vs fuel during the use phase.
2) most bigger EVs do closer to 2.5 miles per kWh in real life than their stated mileage and that's not very efficient. That means it's very difficult to offset/recoup/justify that impact from the battery manufacture during the use phase.
It's a completely different story with small EVs. 25-30kWh batteries are 25-30% the environmental impact and the car travels almost twice as far per kWh.
Ok Soul. Yawn.