Environmentalists should lead the charge against electric vehicles
By Donald van der Vaart, opinion contributor — 02/01/21 04:00 PM EST
Environmentalists should lead the charge against electric vehicles
© FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
If you want to protect the environment and really care about human rights and the poor, stop investing in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Ironically, it was Toyota’s president and CEO, Akio Toyoda, who raised the issue of the brutal realities of PEVs when he recently asked whether politicians understand where the electricity to power them actually comes from.
It’s a good question and, no, apparently the politicians don’t know. Neither do the pension fund and private equity managers who use environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria to justify investing in “green†PEV technology. They should know better, since their industry has made ESG a very big deal.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/536296-environmentalists-should-lead-the-charge-against-electric-vehicles
