Clarkson and others always ask the question, ‘where does the electricity come from?’
There are other stats that say it’s only better after a certain amount of miles driven or that the Lithium quarries produce significant amount of pollution.
What and where do these claims come from, how true are they and how false are they?
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Well…. Of course if you drive your electric car Zero miles and throw it away, you’ve produced more pollution than if you drove an ICE zero miles and throw it away, because of the toxic batteries….
But ultimately I think you should be thinking about TRADING kinds of pollution. Right now we have a global warming crisis because of Co2 and other green house gasses. Not to say that water and soil pollution isn’t serious, it is, but I think the seriousness of climate change is far greater than the kinds of pollution battery pollution creates.
On top of that, gas powered cars produce far more Co2 and greenhouse gasses than an electric vehicle mile for mile, even if the electricity came from a coal power plant in the US. When you have a power plant, it is going to burn things much more efficiently than an portable internal combustion engine. But since not ALL of our electricity is coming from coal, the electric car will win over a ICE car any day in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
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