how are electric vehicles better for the environment when they pollute so much to make and still have to have the power created by polluting, and they pollute majorly when the massive battery has to be disposed of? I know it sounds loaded but I recently had my other big objection explained away by one of these and so want to revisit this.
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Electric cars do create more carbon emissions when they are being produced than a gas car. But electric cars pollute less when you drive them and the difference is made up within a few years and the reduction is enough that Electric cars reduce emissions overall. Electric cars run off the electric grid…so how efficient they are is tied to the grid. Places that use more coal and fossil fuels to make electricity leads to electric cars being less efficient than if they are charged on a more renewable energy grid. But either ways, even electricity from a coal fired power plant is more efficient and controllable than millions of individual gasoline engines. Having one giant power plant is easier to make efficient than all those individual polluting engines.
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