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Originally Posted by asperformance
unfortunately all you have done in essence is purchased a coal-fired Datsun......... 
no-one (in authority anyhows) seems to be able to answer what the real world issues are behind the Lithium mines, power station emissions (a lot of which seem to be either burning fuels brought half way around the world or have massive end of life / waste issues), etc. and thats before you get to actual purchase costs |
No fossils in my energy, we're with a 100% renewable supplier and have solar panels on the roof.
There are environmental costs in any car, whether it's ICE or EV, or hydrogen or whatever else. There is a lot of energy expended in extracting, transporting, refining and transporting again petrol/diesel fuels, but nobody really talks about those. The big oil lobbyists have a lot of money to spend pointing out any negative aspects of EVs.
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news stories about the emissions of brake dust or tyre rubber particles from EVs conveniently ignores the fact that all vehicles emit those particles, and that EVs use their brakes significantly less by using energy regeneration while slowing down (without touching the brake pedal), and that currently these emissions have negligible effects on health when compared with what comes out of exhaust pipes. So when EVs are the most common type of vehicle on the road, there will be much lower exhaust gas emissions and less brake dust particle emission, even if the bits of tyre are still present.