Something for nothing

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Calling electric vehicles is if not dishonest at least very misleading. The sort of people who drive them and brag about how " enviromentally clean" they are are less than honest as well. 

Fact is the " clean energy" they are using comes in the most part from power plants that burn fossil fuels (60%). The other largest single producer is nuclear (21%) Renewables 19%. But - you need to factor in the energy needed to get the equipment needed for rebewables as they rely on other sources of energy in manufacture (80%). 

Electric vehicles are cool - no doubt. I' m building one. ( off road stealth vehicle for hunting - still in development - but got my first ride on it this week. Very torquey).

But pretending they are " zero emmissions" is denying the truth.

Somebody somewhere has to breathe the pollution you are responsible for with your EV.

They’re still a net plus, environmentally speaking. While it’s absolutely true that the production of electric vehicles produces emissions, the vehicles themselves do not.

On the one hand, then, you’ve got IC engines which are responsible for emissions during both production AND operation, and electric vehicles which have only the former. This particular gripe is only valid is you can show that the emissions resulting from the production of an electric car equal or exceed the emissions of an IC car over the life of each vehicle. Can you?

Boru