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by bryanlarsen 1016 days ago
Transport makes up a quarter of emissions and electricity 40%. Smaller, but not very much smaller. The three biggest emitters are electricity, transport and heating in that order, and that is the order that we're attacking them in.

40% of new electricity generation capacity worldwide in 2022 was renewable.[1]

YTD, 15% of new vehicle sales have been EV's.[2]

Heat pump market share in 2022 was 15%.[3]

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270281/electricity-gener... 2: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/10/world-ev-sales-15-of-wo... 3: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/heat-pum...

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Mess with peoples transportation options and they notice in a big way.

Whereas nobody cares where their electricity to the grid comes from, provided it does.

EVs are an excellent option for exactly this reason: what we need is to mess with transportation minimally, ideally with benefits (i.e. quieter, cheaper fuel, maybe self-drive) but ultimately get the usage of energy for transportation disconnected from any specific fuel source.