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by TheSpiceIsLife 2623 days ago
People have no idea what a “ton of carbon” equates to, but saying it is the equivalent of taking 500k cars off the road is meaningful to the general population.

Is this meant to be an off the cuff remark, or is a ton of carbon and 500,000 cars meaningfully linked?

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Thanks for pointing that out, I definitely phrased that poorly. The report said they saved "four million tons of carbon" and they equated that to "saving emissions from being released into the environment from over 500K ICE vehicles". They are basically converting one unit that is hard to understand "one ton of carbon" to a unit that people can relate to in "one ICE vehicle".