I’ve heard that, on balance, electric cars contribute more pollution than today’s low emission gasoline powered cars. Reason being, because the electric cars are recharged, in many places, with electricity generated in coal fired power plants.
If the liberal enviro wackos got their dream, and there were millions of electric cars on the road tomorrow, the electric grid would not be able to handle the demand to recharge all these vehicles.
Consider the pollution caused by mining, leaching out and processing the rare earth minerals required for the motor magnets .
and also mining and processing the chemicals that go to make the batteries.
I remember the grave concerns about the inadequacy of the Grid...expressed back in the late Nineties! we’ve added lots of demand...since then...
Don’t forget the dead zones in China where the lithium ion batteries are made. Heavy metal poisoning is a BFD, as the Veep would say.