SRF Eco Talk from 13.03.2023
ELECTRIC DRIVES ARE ON THE RISE. BUT THEY ARE ONLY ECOLOGICALLY BETTER IF THEY ARE ALSO POWERED BY ELECTRICITY AND BATTERIES.
Driving an electric car is not automatically a good deed, and certainly not from day one. That's what Stefanie Conrad says.
She is an environmental consultant at the company Carbotech and explains: "If you look at the environmental footprint - which, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions, also includes the effects on human health, resource depletion and water scarcity - then an electric car that runs on green electricity in Switzerland has a so-called emissions advantage over a combustion engine after about 100,000 kilometres.
If you drive 10,000 kilometres per year, you need ten years to achieve that. In addition, "if the car is charged with normal electricity instead of green electricity, it only has an emissions advantage over the combustion engine after 200,000 kilometres.
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