It’s not good to do this analysis with figures from the entire U.S., which has a wildly variable mix of electricity sources depending on where you are and what time of day it is. This also obscures the difference between unavoidable C02 emissions from burning gasoline with emissions from industrial processes that may not emit carbon in the future.

In general people are not careful readers, and in my opinion, headlines like this tend to feed cynicism and inaction.

What I see here is enormous opportunity in decarbonizing the processes that lead to high lifecycle emissions for this and other vehicles.