400 mile electric RV

Timmo! wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Compliance will be achieved by making traditional energy sources absurdly expensive.

That's right, punish good willed people for following their individuality and not bowing to the "one size fits all" majority.

My wife drives 3500 miles a year. If she were to buy a BEV today (pick one), when will her new BEV achieve carbon parity with a comparable ICE vehicle? I speculate the battery pack will hit end of life long before that day and the carbon emissions from manufacturing the new battery pack will essentially extend her "breakeven" point by another decade or so.

So, forcing my wife to buy a BEV is not a GREEN solution. Whereas, forcing you to buy a BEV is probably a very GREEN solution.

You omitted some key information like what car your wife is driving, so I put her in a 33 mpg small car. Since she drives so little, and you said I can pick the BEV, I put her in a Mini Cooper SE EV. I picked a pessimistic 100kgCO2/kWh for the battery pack, Tesla is about half that in their American produced batteries. I picked the German power mix, which is fairly close to Oregon where about half the power comes from renewables, and most of the rest comes from Natural Gas.

This calculator came up with 20,000km, or 12,500 miles, so your wife's BEV will reach carbon parity in about 4 years.

The battery warranty will cover her for 8 years/80,000 miles, but at such low usage, it will likely last much longer than that.