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There’s no denying that electric vehicles are what most of us will be driving in the near-future. Countries around the world have pledged to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles over the next few decades, in an effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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But with lingering questions over the mining of rare metals, battery manufacturing and electricity consumption, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates whether electric vehicles are as green as we’ve been led to believe
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In the 20th century, government limited vehicle gas mileage to sell more gas and generate more gas taxes. Now they are limiting high gas mileage cars (we can get 500mpg, imagine 20x less CO2) so EVs appear more economical. While battery power creates 25% less CO2 today, they are devastating to the planet surface and fresh water supply.
What the video fails to mention, is that the precious metals used in EV batteries are subsidized, and will NOT get cheaper as demand increases. Precious metals only increase with increased demand. You can expect to pay over $150,000 for a Honda Civic EV.
The end goal of government is to eliminate personal transportation. (Grandma can ride a bike, in the rain.) And this video promotes eliminating personal transportation. If you have less movement, you have less freedom.
DUH
So driving an ev car is more of a lifestyle change than reducing carbon emissions. Got it
Not so green when the car is a write off after a couple of scraps on the bottom of the car
Over 60% of the electricity feed into the grid is lost in conversion and transport. There is nothing green here, the pollution is just centralized to the power station.
“We have the technology but not the political will to use it” that part.
Electric cars aren't better for the Planet but what they are is a big money grab for the left. Who then gets millions of dollars to build useless Solar Farms like that abandoned one in California from an earlier Left leaning liberal wack job California Politicians. The Big Green Lie including electric car batteries. The dirtiest child labor fiasco on Earth!
1. Population degrowth(800 billion to 400 billion and so on)
2. End of consumerism
yes but what about when the battries inevatibly die and the range gets shorter and shorter, we are going to have piles of electric cars in perfect condition accept for the battries rotting for no reason, when car manufactors discontinue models will they stop producing that cars battry as well?
Carbon accounting should not be trusted until it's regulated. I can only imagine how these activists "measure".
Well no they are not … Proven 😂😂😂
Being The G… you missed several points EVs excell… complex issue to simplify
Ive seen all these predictions where we are more heading for a new mini ice age which will "coincidentelly" start after 2030. If we consider this, it's obvious that they want us to epically fail as an civilization by then since none of the "green" power sources like solar and wind works in winter climate. Also, how do all these EVs work in cold climate?! Hello?! I think this is why the polititians and lobbyists in EU and W E F are so stressed to implement all these insane "solutions".
nope…
They not green the batteries are a tome bomb waiting to go off
Higher airparticles from tires and brakes? Man the trash carcompanies are grasping at straws, eh?
They keep on pushing this going green stuff on everyone while making said products more expensive than just the traditional ones 😂
Have to include all the fires – ships sinking , factory disasters .
No!
It's not only about changing the type of energy we use but how we use it. The whole oil extraction, processing, distribution and usage are extremely inefficient. Well generating electricity efficiency can't depend, using a EV motor to use that energy is vastly more energy efficient then burning gas!
so saying is that mining lithium is more worse then gasoline.
I would bye a internal combustion cars until i die
It takes many years to recover the price of an electric vehicle against a normal car , and after those years the battery probably needs replacement , which is the most polluting( in production ) and expensive part of an EV. Also where and how is the electricity generated , as much of the world uses coal , gas etc and this is even more polluting
No vroom vroom 🙁
Use sodium ion batteries instead of lithium
If I saved 24% on the price of say a house I would be delighted.
EVs are not a silver bullet, I agree. But continuing with the present combustion engine model of transportation is still worse over the average lifetime of both vehicles.
There will always be a problem to solve. Having problems to solve with EVs is no reason to just chuck it and continue with combustion engines.
Almost everything is complicated if you dig deep enough, but there is an answer and it's yes EVs are much greener than gassers
grass is greener
vehicles not complicated at all, source of electricity still mired in legacy cess pools called 'oil wells.'
prc announced recently they had passed half-way point in transition to green source power.
rest of the world can do it too, if governments escape bribes and threats from oil wealth.
Undeniably better for the environment…you eventually say it but, you bury the truth beneath a pile of negative issues that all autos have. Both are bad for the environment in terms of extracting, transporting & processing the raw resources…
EV drivers are victims of fraudulent marketing aided by the U.S. government that allowed EV makers to multiply the efficiency rating of the vehicles by 6.67 times. In addition, EV drivers need to have their wallet and their brain recharged!
Wow only 25% less carbon pollution from an EV charged up on coal generated electricity. 25% that's barely an improvement at all geez only 25%.
We need proper public transport in urban areas and electric vehicles in rural areas.
Public transportation was the way around once and I still believe it still is. Let's be frank, we are spoiled people who should have a car of our own but still want to present ourselves as environmental friendly. Yes, I am sure we are.
Yes EV Best protect nature 😊
So evs need to be kept until you get over 90k miles before tge offset they become greener than a traditional car
Anthropogenic Co2 has a positive impact on earth
In my city 4 million people use an ev everyday. It's called subway. Governments just should make life harder for car commuters.
ICE cars far out way EV problems, their is one big problem with ICE cars You Won't Believe What's Really is Putting ICE Owners at Risk LUNG CANCER that is right LUNG CANCER from tail pipe emissions. I know what you are saying "it won't happen to me" but if it does it's to late. I am not worried about a EV fire that's what insurance is for but insurance can't fix your health. I didn't hear this from anybody, I went to these sites and got the real facts National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Guardian, American Cancer Society and the list goes on. There was 250,000 new Lung Cancer cases globally in 2020
This is something that nobody talks about. The Guardian reported that In Norway, which has the world's highest proportion of electric cars sales, there are between four and five times more fires in petrol and diesel cars. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency found that the were 3.8 fires per 100,000 electric or Hybrid in 2022 compared with 68 fires per 100,000 cars when taking all fuel types into account. Australia's EV FireSafe found there was a 0.0012% chance of a passenger electric vehicle battery catching fire, compared with a 0.1% chance for internal combustion engine fire. The chance of survival in a EV is very high as the car smokes for quite sometime before it combusts which gives the occupants time to get out of the vehicle and clear the area. Gas and Diesel vehicles are highly combustible which gives the occupants far less time to exit the vehicle which makes far less safe as your EV counterparts
Depends on what colour you choose 😂
We have the solution. Our motors are highly efficient and can compete with electric cars in most cases.
So the worst case is EVe save 24% emissions.
this helped for my essay 👍
The Silent Pandemic: Unseen Climatic Crisis in Human Physiology
Beyond the CO2 Headlines: The Everyday Neglected Climate Catastrophe – The Overlooked Battle and Pollution of Our Bodies!
While the world’s gaze remains fixated on the visible impacts of geographical climate change, and making CO2 the prime villain, an equally devastating crisis quietly unfolds within our very bodies. This crisis, though less heralded, claims millions of lives daily and manifests as a widespread prevalence of preventable diseases and premature deaths – each statistic a silent scream for attention and action.
Stop private jets