2021 BRN Discussion, page-30091

The following article makes me very, very excited about the prospects for AKIDA technology adoption in the EV space. Remember how I have rabbited on about the most energy efficient vehicle you can drive is the one you are currently driving as it is already the bearer of the embedded energy necessary to produce it. If you scrap it and buy and Electric Vehicle to save the planet the following research done by Volvo makes your actions even more irresponsible ecologically speaking:

The Swedish automaker compares how much it emits to make an XC40 versusa fully-electric C40 or XC40 Recharge.

The debate surrounding whether or not it EVs areany greener to manufacture compared to ICE vehicles will likely continue. Thereare arguments to support both sides, but if you ask Volvo, it will tell you making an EV pollutes far more than a vehicle running an internal combustion engine.

Volvo compared the gas-burning XC40 with the fully-electric C40 (basically the same vehicle, but with a coupe-like roofline and EV powertrain) and discovered that making the latter results in 70 percent more emissions. The difference is quite notable given the fact that both vehicles are built in the same factory, on the same assembly line and they share a great number of components.

This means that the battery is the main reason whymaking the electric C40 produces that much more emissions, especially given thefact that Volvo took everything into account when calculating this, taking itback to when the raw materials were extracted and processed. Now we don’tknow if the difference is comparable in other manufacturers’ cases, but if thedata presented by Volvo is any indication, it would mean all new EVs arenotably less green to manufacture than an ICE vehicle.

The percentage may not be as high as the 70 percentthat Volvo claims, as this also has a lot to do with suppliers and supplychains, but even if it’s lower, it is unlikely to be much more in the EVsfavor. And as is stated in the AutoTrader source article, this news certainlylends more credence to some automakers’ claims that giving their EVs smallerbatteries is the greenest way to go (the Mazda MX-30 and the Honda e are two vehicles created under such philosophies)"

Now hopefully you read right to the end of this extracted article because you will see that this Volvo research has not taken other vehicle manufacturers by surprise and they are claiming the solution to some extent is to be found in using smaller batteries and this brings with it an imperative to use as little power as possible running the ancillaries so the maximum amount of power can be reserved for the driving wheels.

Though not suggested in this article the other way to reduce the balance in favour of EV's is to up the range of all EV's which has them covering more distance for the same cost and once again the AKIDA technology solutions at dramatically reduced power will win out.


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