Ars Technica Article on Possible Upcoming Funding Changes for EVs and EV Infrastructure

[Firn]

Sure, and I do understand the carbon issue. For some reason none of the “treaties” to date have done anything significant about India and China’s emissions. If the pain is felt equally by all then I can see an argument, but when you target only the traditionally first world countries and let China and India with lax environmental laws and 2.9 of the 8.1 billion inhabitants of Earth continue polluting it seems agenda driven. What’s next, climate reparations for what the boomers and Greatest Generation did?

What are you talking about. China has signed such "treaties" and been more consistent with following them than we have. They are now the global leader in green energy and darn near implement more green energy per year than we have in total. More than that they also lead the world in switching to electric power, what with something like 50% of new car sales being electric. Which is sayign something for the lagest auto market in the world. And not only do they implement more of it than anyone else, they have become the world leader in MAKING it.

At the end of the day though this attitude is exactly the problem. We have gone from being the world leader to the world follower and folks sit and complain about how everyone else should be doing something. What's worse is they ARE doing it, and we are NOT.

As for India, they may not be implementing fields of solar panels and hydrogen electric dams (which of course we don't either being they get shot down as being the "green agenda"), but they are modernizing their equipment. Folks like to complain but countries don't go from inefficient coal plants directly to nuclear, wind, and solar.

This is the rhetoric spewed in the echo chambers, once you look past folks only seeing what they want to see the truth is far different.

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[broncoaz]

Yep, China is doing great on reducing their CO2 emissions They are 35% of the world emissions.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/239093/co2-emissions-in-china/#:~:text=Carbon dioxide emissions in China 1960-2023&text=China released 11.9 billion metric,of countries where emissions increased.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-overview

https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2023/the-changing-landscape-of-global-emissions

 

[ccough]

Some data (links/citations provided):

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2024


https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions


https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions


https://www.iea.org/data-and-statis...s-emissions-of-a-mid-size-bev-and-ice-vehicle

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A few points:

China is currently the top emitter, emitting at 2.68 times the rate of the US (top figure).

It is observed that the US has reduced GHG emissions by around 17% since the peak around the year 2000. China has seen a 311% change in GHG output since 1990.

Transportation accounts for 29% of the GHG emission in the US (second figure). Of this, 57% is derived primarily from consumer "light vehicle" use (third figure). This use is, by some margin, the largest output in transportation sector and is ~16.5% (roughly 1/6) of total GHG emission in the US. Given total US emission of around 6,000 Mton-equivalent, personal transport accounts for roughly 1,000 Mton-equivalent emissions.

Comparing lifetime BEV to ICE usage, there is a ~50% reduction in greenhouse outputs (if a central value is assumed for EVs) (fourth figure). If all light-duty vehicles were BEVs, the US could reduce GHG emissions by 500 Mton-equivalent (to ~5,500 Mton-equivalent, if all other sectors hold).

This would offset 64% of the 784 Mton increase in GHG from China from years 2022 to 2023. This reduction exceeds GHG emissions of many smaller and/or less developed countries.

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Of course, weighing such data in policy making making is a complex issue dependent on a number of personal and external "weighting" factors.