"Electric Vehicles are Actually Worse for the Environment than Internal Combustion Cars"

[Jer]

...and other myths I often hear. I stumbled across a very well done video that is easy to understand and breaks down several myths I often hear about EVs. Usually it's from someone who "heard from someone" or saw a headline like my thread title and assumed it was fact w/o reading the details or the MSM perpetuating this false narrative that EVs are bad because it gets clicks just like guns are bad.

Electric Cars Myths vs Facts


As is often the case with those who don't understand firearms it's far too easy for them to latch onto the false narrative that they're evil. Once they're educated on the facts and experience them first-hand their story often changes. I find the same to be true with EVs. Once I take people for a ride and answer all of their questions they "get it" and often times say something to the effect that they have to get one those things.

[Bailey Guns]

Wait... Are you saying guns aren't evil?

[Great-Kazoo]

Wait... Are you saying guns aren't evil?

No, he's justifying something he feels passionate about.

Again

[Irving]

Wait... Are you saying drones aren't evil?

[hurley842002]

Jer, you have a thread going about choosing a career path, have you thought about Tesla sales? You are obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about them, perhaps you could take that passion and turn it into $$. Serious suggestion, no sarcasm intended.

[Bailey Guns]

It was actually a pretty interesting video. I'd need to see info from the "other" side to make a judgment on where the truth actually lies.

[.455_Hunter]

I am not anti-EV, but some of his generalizations and assumptions are crap.

A couple of examples from the first few minutes:

- Stopping at a charging station for 1 hour mid-trip works we until there is a line for the charging station. You can't assume that you will always be able to wheel right into a station and plug-in.

- Averaging power outage time across the entire country in kinda like averaging hurricane loss across the entire country. Some areas can be without power for weeks, especially with ice storms. You can store gas to keep your vehicle running. Using that gas in a generator to charge your EV- highly inefficient.

EV's can be highly practical for certain users and areas of the county, especially if you can maintain a second "normal'" car as back-up, but marginalizing legitimate concerns with "facts" doesn't help anything.

[Irving]

Only watched about half, but hasn't considered EV for people who don't live in houses. I imagine most people who park on the street aren't even considering an EV. I wouldn't; but that's the benefit of homeownership though. I have a LOT of stuff I wouldn't have if I lived in an apartment. A smoker for example.

[BPTactical]

Lets see you pull 12K# with an electric vehicle up Red Mountain, Wolf Creek or Loveland pass.
You'd burn that bitch to the ground.

BS video IMO- It doesn't address the carbon footprint of production nor disposal and cost of battery replacement.
It takes a huge amount of energy to manufacture batteries on this scale and you have an environmental mess when it comes to disposal.
Or do we just send them to India/Pakistan for disposal?
More carbon cause they aint gonna get there on a magic carpet....

[izzy]

I'm with the battery comments. I'll find the link but there was a huge study done in Europe where they determined to produce a single lithium battery for one of these cars is equivalent, in terms of carbon emissions, to driving a typical car for 10 years straight. The chemicals and other byproducts of producing the batteries are also pretty nasty.