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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They’re not particularly worse to produce than any other car. Keep in mind that cars already have pretty big batteries to begin with.
The power they use can pollute if it’s made with non-green sources (as a lot of power is). But power plants are considerably more efficient than car engines at capturing that power (a quick economic proof: if they weren’t, charging your car would be more expensive than buying gas for it). Power plants also have sophisticated equipment to capture a lot of the worst pollutants, but that equipment would be quite expensive and heavy to tack onto a car. That means less pollution per mile driven. And of course that power often *can* be pulled from renewable sources where they’re available.
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