Recently, one of MEVA’s members wrote a series of articles for the University of Manitoba newspaper: The Case For Electric Vehicles.
The first articles compares pollution statistics between internal combustion engine (ICE) versus electric vehicles (EVs).
“even if your car gets 7.8 litres per 100 kilometres over a lifetime of 160,000 kms, the car will consume 12,617 litres and create 29,848 kilograms (or 29.8 tonnes) of carbon dioxide. Since many cars such as the Toyota Camry weigh about one metric tonne, this means that the car will produce about 30 times its weight in CO2 over 160,000 kms. … ”
“The corresponding CO2 for these vehicles charged with hydroelectricity will be only 375 kgs, which is less than half a metric tonne. Compared to the almost 30 metric tonnes that the ICE vehicle produces, the electric vehicle running on hydroelectricity is about 80 times cleaner!”
See the full article here:
Leith has spent 20 years working to drive sustainability into the core business of the higher education sector. Leith began her career by establishing one of world’s first campus sustainability programs at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In 1999, Harvard University recruited Leith to be the founding director of Harvard’s Office for Sustainability. Under her leadership, Harvard came to have the largest green campus organization in
