What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

This is what I found :

If you want to make a comparison with combustion engines, you have to include the CO2 that comes with producing electricity. At the same time, not only is CO2 released when petrol or diesel is burned in an engine block, but the production of these fuels is also anything but CO2 neutral. So this also has to be taken into account. The total emissions when you add these factors together is also called the well-to-wheel emissions (WTW). Research by TNO (see the PDF download at the bottom of this TNO webpage) shows that the WTW emissions of an electric car are three to four times lower than those of a petrol or diesel car.

Variable Tipping Point

The number of kilometers after which this tipping point occurs depends on many variables. TNO calculated that for a mid-size car, this is approximately 39,000 kilometers. Since the average lifespan of a car is around 220,000 kilometers, an electric car ultimately has 35 to 55 percent lower CO2 emissions than a comparable gasoline car.

Incidentally, a battery pack will most likely reach 220,000 km. This is subject to degradation (and therefore a steadily decreasing range), but it certainly won't always be necessary to replace a battery pack halfway through its lifespan, as is often assumed.

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(published on https://www.anwb.nl/auto/elektrisch-rijden/elektrische-autos/hoe-duurzaam-zijn-elektrische-autos source research institute in the Netherlands)

I couldn’t find anything about solar energy which is used by many EV car owners.
 
We pay $2.20/gallon for propane here, and that's the "bargain buy-in member price." Natural gas is not available out here. Our woodstove keeps our house toasty -- to a point. If it gets down to about 10° F, we let the furnace run. The extremities of the house can get too cold, and then we'd have to worry about pipes in the outside walls freezing.

The furnace also requires electricity to heat the ignition bar (or whatever it's called), which is like heating a burner on the stove on high. Peak rate is 15¢ kwh, off peak is 10¢. On our latest bill, about 52% of the bill is "other charges." The big one is the distribution charge, at 8¢.
 

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