I’m surprised you haven’t heard the opposite. It’s wrong, but a really common talking point for a while was buying an EV wasn’t actually good because of the pollution involved in manufacturing the car. Then a few years later they updated the rhetoric to talk about the minerals mined for batteries. I assume it was pushed by Fossil Fuel companies.
This The Guardian article mentions the minerals one. You can see an example of The Daily Telegraph pushing the myths with the headline: “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery.”
But the guardian article mentions the points but comes to exactly the expected conclusion:
The data we have leaves little doubt that resource extraction will be significantly lower for electric cars compared with their petrol or diesel equivalents as recycling increases.
Well yeah, it’s a myth pushed by fossil fuel companies and climate change deniers. I was just saying I’m surprised you haven’t anyone say it, it was the biggest ‘gotcha’ people would try to use when pushing back against EV adoption for years.
I never heard the opposite. Sources?
I’m surprised you haven’t heard the opposite. It’s wrong, but a really common talking point for a while was buying an EV wasn’t actually good because of the pollution involved in manufacturing the car. Then a few years later they updated the rhetoric to talk about the minerals mined for batteries. I assume it was pushed by Fossil Fuel companies.
This The Guardian article mentions the minerals one. You can see an example of The Daily Telegraph pushing the myths with the headline: “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery.”
But the guardian article mentions the points but comes to exactly the expected conclusion:
Well yeah, it’s a myth pushed by fossil fuel companies and climate change deniers. I was just saying I’m surprised you haven’t anyone say it, it was the biggest ‘gotcha’ people would try to use when pushing back against EV adoption for years.