Everyone knows that electric vehicles are supposed to be better for the planet than gas cars. That’s the driving reason behind a global effort to transition toward batteries.
But what about the harms caused by mining for battery minerals? And coal-fired power plants for the electricity to charge the cars? And battery waste? Is it really true that EVs are better?
The answer is yes. But Americans are growing less convinced.
The net benefits of EVs have been frequently fact-checked, including by NPR. "No technology is perfect, but the electric vehicles are going to offer a significant benefit as compared to the internal combustion engine vehicles," Jessika Trancik, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told NPR this spring.
It’s important to ask these questions about EVs’ hidden costs, Trancik says. But they have been answered “exhaustively” — her word — and a widerange of organizations have confirmed that EVs still beat gas.
Cleaner than gas cars =/= Clean.
This is the lowest possible bar to pass. The point isn’t that EVs are worse than gas. The point is that both are terrible for people, health, safety, climate, transit, sustainability, equity, freedom, etc.
So what’s your plan? Ban cars? Good luck.
We wouldn’t have to resign ourselves to bullshit half measures if we lived in a society that didn’t treat public transit as the “poor person’s option” and didn’t see sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, breathing in all those wonderful carcinogenic fumes as “freedom”.
Let’s ban oil company propaganda first. Also, yeah. Fuck cars.
Wut. Cars have legitimate uses.
EVs dont only not pollute wherever they drive, but overall are probably around 70% efficient if including the power generation, while gas is 40% or less.
The others, I think you are projecting US problems to the whole self-owned transportation sector.
“hurr de durr, it’s not fully clean, derp”
Ok Trumper
No aspect of their comment suggested they support Trump. In fact, it’s the kind of on-brand militant anti-car sentiment that is basically the status quo on Lemmy.