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Originally Posted by Thescout13
Not true. Look at the data. EV cars are substantially more environmentally friendly than petrol cars from when measured from production to lifetime environmental impact of emissions. Doesn't mean they have no impact on the environment or that an alternative source isn't better, but in comparison to petrol, they are definitely cleaner and getting even cleaner by the year (whereas gas cars have essentially hit a plateau).
This idea that EV cars have a higher impact on the environment than petrol cars may have been true 10 years ago, but not now. Not even by a long shot. In fact while manufacturing an ICE car may create slightly less emissions than EV, in the life-cycle of the car (which is what people who say EV cars are dirtier seem to ignore) the emissions output from an ICE car is more than double what an EV produces (measured not at the tailpipe, but what it takes to create the electricity that charges EVs) for cars that drive the equivalent miles per year. On balance, if you drove one EV for 1 year, you would have negated the emissions penalty taken in producing the EV when compared to driving an ICE car for that same period. And given that the average American keeps their car for 6 years, EV is better for the environment than an ICE car (not to mention smog reduction in crowded cities). Read any number of studies from the Department of Energy, as well as numerous independent studies. The only recent study I have seen that shows the opposite was funded by oil companies and well, yeah.
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Batteries, think about all the HUGE LI batteries if we all went electric, WTF are we going to do with those,
can't recycle those, takes millions of years to do that.