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You need one more step -- cars as a % of American transportation activities.



I agree. http://climate.dot.gov/about/transportations-role/overview.h... looks like maybe 82% if you include trucks with cars


Good breakdown. As far as things that can be replaced by Priuses and Teslas (original point upthread), I think you're looking at just the 34% from passenger cars. So you end up with taking a bite out of (not zeroing) 2% of global emissions.


well - I would still say that is a bit optimistic. For instance what portion of consumers can afford a prius or tesla type vehicle?

I do think it is fair to point out that as there is more industry adoption (starting with teslas and priuses) the tech should become cheaper and better, affected other markets in other places. So directly, they aren't going to do much, but in the long term, adoption of teslas and priuses could have a substantial impact.




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