The ‘greenest’ car in America (Spoiler Alert - It's not an EV)

[rivermaverick]

An interesting article comparing the overall impact of ICE, Hybrid, plug in hybrid and EVs on the earths resources (greenest). There is an EV that comes out near the bottom of the list, you probably have a good idea what it is but you will have to read through the article to find it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/28/greenest-cars-plug-in-hybrid

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[Scott Asheville]

There are only around 1,000 of these type of articles out there, each of which draws a different conclusion. These lightweights are usually trying to push their own narrative by making a set of assumptions and cherry picking their facts. You love BEVs, there's an article for you. You hate BEVs, there's an article for you. You bow down in worship when a hybrid drives by, yup, there's an article for you to.

It's kind of like the famous saying from Stalinist Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_give_you_the_case_against_him

The usual retort is "This (newspaper, person, site, whatever) is well known and respected". ROTFL. Almost every media outlet is owned by some rich person with an agenda to push. Or they're funded by a government, which is even worse.

 

[BlueSnake77]

Draw your own conclusions but the whole EV thing is a pipe dream. The Government (you know those super trustworthy people) don't talk about the downsides. Like how strip mining is required for the materials to build EV batteries. Or that oil is and always will be required because ...uh... plastic is made from oil and many car parts are made from .... plastic. As is cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc. Then in cold climates, EV's lose like 40% of thier range. Then there is the problem of future battery disposal. Batteries are made from some pretty nasty stuff, and EV batteries are huge. The politicians push the EV narrative because many of them have stocks in EV companies. Unless some technological break through happens where car batteries can be made much smaller with much greater range, more logical solutions would be smaller cars with smaller engines, more hybrids (batteries are 1/2 to 1/3rd the size of an EV battery) and people with career type jobs (jobs that they know they are going to be at for years) moving closer to work if possible. I did that about 8 years ago and went from a daily 39 mile round trip to a 9 mile round trip to/from work.

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