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2026-07-31 13:29 UTC
@tbegush@mastodon.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk Volvo released figures a few years ago for CO2 produced by manufacturing one of their electric SUVs.
It was of the order of 22-24 tonnes.
I did a quick calculation and it seems that using one of my smaller cars, say my Trabant that it would take 150,000 km of driving to emit the same amount of CO2.
So it would be interesting to know how long the carbon capture system would need to run to break even taking in account the amount of CO2 produced during construction.
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@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk 2026-07-31 14:38
@the_wub@mastodon.social @tbegush@mastodon.social er., from memory. Volvo's figures where for a complete lifecycle, ie. build, use and recycle. You can't compare that to jusr clocking up miles in a Trabant. You need to include build and recycling. Incidentally Volvo's numbers also covered the figures for an equivalent ICE Volvo, annd it was much lower.