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Originally Posted by AMOR
The amount of carbon emitted to manufacture an electric vehicle is equivalent to ~10 years of driving your existing ICE car (granted that you did not remove cats). Furthermore, if you have an electric vehicle already - it still emits carbon because you need to charge it, and that electricity does not come exclusively from solar panels and wind generators. Then imagine if everyone will switch to electric tomorrow, how much power we need to produce to charge those cars? Carbon free electric cars? Yeah right!  |
That's a misconception that EV's cause more harm to the environment during manufacturing. You are correct that our power infrastructure is not in place yet to do a mass changeover to EVs.
https://earth.org/electric-vehicles-...yAAEgIZbPD_BwE