“There’s no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle”

[rangerrebew]

“There’s no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle”

“With an EV, you don’t eliminate emissions, you just export them.

You have to dig up about 500,000 lbs of material to make a single  1000lb battery

It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent.

Demand for those minerals (Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel) will increase between 400 and 4000%.

There’s not enough mining in the world to make enough batteries for all those people.”

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-zero-emissions-vehicle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=theres-no-such-thing-as-a-zero-emissions-vehicle

[The_Reader_David]

Quite.  The notion is an urbanite delusion (more so than a Leftist delusion per se):  no tailpipe emissions in your city suffices to count as a "zero emissions vehicle".  Not a bad concept if you're in the LA basin or NYC where smog is a problem, but stupid as a concept for national policy.