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Comments from feedback form - "VERY biased. I wonder who fund..."

VERY biased. I wonder who funded the research? If the 32m cars in the UK were on monday all EV, we would need to control pollution at 71 fossil fuel power stations (a decreasing number), rather than 32m mobile ones (a number increasing). It's a NO BRAINER, before you start to consider pollutant cost of getting the oil, the old oil from petrol/diesel cars, etc etc. I would not trust this report 1cm, I would look into who benefits from its distortions.

115.73.248.197 (talk)03:29, 7 October 2012

According to one of the cited sources, "Their research was partly funded by the Norwegian Research Council under the E-Car Project".

Pi zero (talk)03:39, 7 October 2012
 

Please point me to the bias. I don't see any.

Or maybe, just maybe, you might like to look at the carbon cost of making the sort of batteries these vehicle use. They almost-invariably involve rare-earth metals, which can be as-difficult to extract as oil.

92.239.150.114 (talk)11:08, 7 October 2012

After reading the study, I think the bias is in the blog post used as a source. I agree with Mike Peel that the title should read something like "Electric vehicles could be less green than classic fuel cars, study finds"? Mrchris (talk) 11:55, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Mrchris (talk)11:55, 7 October 2012

After a bunch of internal discussion, we've tweaked the headline by inserting the words "can be". This is an example of a change we couldn't make once our archiving policy kicks in, 24 hours after publication.

Pi zero (talk)15:45, 7 October 2012

all of u should justr buy a 350 ford. screw the enviroment.

165.111.2.149 (talk)17:55, 11 October 2012