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by credit_guy 1116 days ago
Nonsense. A ton of steel produced with coal produces about two tons of CO2. If produced from recycled steel, it produces about 0.4 tons, but let’s say 0. So a two ton EV (like the Tesla Model Y) would generate 4 tons more CO2 than a similar ICE vehicle made with “green steel”. That ICE vehicle will generate more than 4 tons of CO2 every single year of its existence.