There is no straightforward, clear cut case that EV’s will be any better for the environment than internal combustion cars. From Mike “Mish” Shedlock at mishtalk.com:
Even if you are 100% convinced in man-made climate change, the idea the EV’s will help reduce CO2 emissions is nonsense.
The Impossible Dream
Hello climate change advocates, please open your minds and consider the Manhattan Institute report Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by Mark P. Mills, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow.
A dozen U.S. states, from California to New York, have joined dozens of countries, from Ireland to Spain, with plans to ban the sale of new cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE), many prohibitions taking effect within a decade. Meanwhile, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in a feat of regulatory legerdemain, has proposed tailpipe emissions rules that would effectively force automakers to shift to producing mainly electric vehicles (EVs) by 2032.
To ensure compliance with ICE prohibitions and soften the economic impacts, policymakers are deploying lavish subsidies for manufacturers and consumers. Enthusiasts claim that EVs already have achieved economic and operational parity, if not superiority, with automobiles and trucks fueled by petroleum, so the bans and subsidies merely accelerate what they believe is an inevitable transition.
It is certainly true that EVs are practical and appealing for many drivers. Even without subsidies or mandates, millions more will be purchased by consumers, if mainly by wealthy ones. But the facts reveal a fatal flaw in the core motives for the prohibitions and mandates.
Executive Summary Key Points
- No one knows how much, if at all, CO2 emissions will decline as EV use rises. Every claim for EVs reducing emissions is a rough estimate or an outright guess based on averages, approximations, or aspirations. The variables and uncertainties in emissions from energy-intensive mining and processing of minerals used to make EV batteries are a big wild card in the emissions calculus. Those emissions substantially offset reductions from avoiding gasoline and, as the demand for battery minerals explodes, the net reductions will shrink, may vanish, and could even lead to a net increase in emissions. Similar emissions uncertainties are associated with producing the power for EV charging stations.
EV’s are a construct of the white male patriarchy.
Love the EV graveyard photo from France where it was too expensive to replace the ever eco-friendly lithium battery.
Or the many photos of them bursting into flames.
A local has one and it beeps when I walk past, so I fart in its general direction.
Let the clown horns sound until the walls come down.
All the increased in load on the grid, which we are being encouraged to protect, by adjusting our thermostats. So, don’t run the air conditioner so much,, but get an electric car. They don’t know how to repair them after a crash. They have to be kept at a distance from Everything after they have been in the Slightest accident. They burst into flames,, BUT, because they are magical,, they Absorb CO2 when they burn!! Amazing, no!??
When was the last time anyone saw a Solution to The Problem SHOVED down our throats that worked out?
You Know this is Not going to solve any problems.
EVs are one of the tactics to immobilise us.
One element of our entrapment.
Indeed.