I’ve seen a lot of posts here on Lemmy, specifically in the “fuck cars” communities as to how Electric Vehicles do pretty much nothing for the Climate, but I continue to see Climate activists everywhere try pushing so, so hard for Electric Vehicles.
Are they actually beneficial to the planet other than limiting exhaust, or is that it? or maybe exhaust is a way bigger problem?
This is a very good point. A large obstacle in widespread adoption of renewable energy, is the inherent inflexibility of many of them. You can’t bend gods’will to make sunshine at midnight and as such you cannot meet the demand at certain times of the day. However, if renewable energy could be stored during a surplus, we wouldn’t need fossil fuels to supplement peak power consumption in the afternoons.
An alternative are nuclear reactors but they are expensive and time consuming to build. Not to even mention the NIMBY’s everywhere (“not in my backyard”) preventing construction of these very controversial (unfairly so) reactors.