What Hannah Ritchie thinks about electric vehicles

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.

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5 Sept 2023

Our readingAn acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel.

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Their wordsYou can drive about 150 times as far from a solar-powered electric car compared to using corn bioethanol.

↗Biofuels: the US could switch to electric cars and solar power on just a fraction of the landhannahritchie.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece