I know that gas vehicles produce gasses that pollute the atmosphere and electric vehicles don’t emit anything which is good. But even in the perfect scenario where you’re going from solar, to battery, to car the components are still made of parts that can’t be recycled. The batteries have acids that need to be disposed of somehow. At a large scale wouldn’t all this excess chemical waste be just as much a pollutant than gas vehicle emissions?
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“Just as much a pollutant” is a really vague way to phrase it. Yes the byproducts *are* pollutants, but if our main problem is greenhouse gas emissions, electric cars address that problem. I don’t know enough to speak on how other types of pollution are handled, but that’s a different problem entirely, and one maybe that is less dire and more easily handled than the problem of greenhouse gasses.
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