A few days before the opening of the Motor Show, on October 17, the Environment and Energy Management Agency draws up an exhaustive assessment of the environmental assets of battery vehicles
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This is an opinion intended to reassure the French who doubt the real environmental impact of the electric car. A few days before the opening of the Paris Motor Show, which is held from October 17 to 23, the Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) puts the points on the I FACE Critics (rare land uses, access and cost of electrical energy) which could lead motorists to give up switching to electric for their daily trips.
You should not cut the momentum of the French while in September, for the first time in France, it sold more new electric vehicles than diesel. But, in this opinion, ADEME also recognizes that the largest electric cars, SUV and sedans, do really better than diesels than beyond 70,000 to 100,000 kilometers, depending on the model.
“On the entire lifespan, an electric car rolling in France has a carbon impact two to three times lower than that of a similar thermal model, provided that its battery is of reasonable capacity” , indicates the opinion. The battery must therefore have a capacity of less than 60 kWh, the equivalent of a Peugeot E 208 or a Renault Mégane as much as possible, with autonomies of 400 to 450 kilometers. Any electric car initially has a “carbon debt” – the energy and the material spent to build it – two to three times that of a thermal vehicle.
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For the lightest cars, the “city cars”, all of this fades “after about 15,000 kilometers”. For large electric cars, SUV type, given their weight which can go up to 2.5 tonnes empty, you have to wait 100,000 kilometers. It is therefore advisable to choose a battery adapted to the majority use of the vehicle (daily home-work), by selecting a smaller and light vehicle model possible.
Warning of the agency also on rechargeable hybrid vehicles. They can be adapted when the driver must make long distance trips. But ADEME recalls, by quoting the latest INSEE study, that an average French household only makes three trips per year more than 200 kilometers from his home. However, hybrid vehicles are much heavier than non -electrified thermal vehicles, they consume many more fuels, when they are in thermal mode. Here too you have to adapt your use well and recharge them very regularly in order to use them in electric mode as much as possible.
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