[heartwood]

According to a McKinsey & Company study, this high emission intensity can be attributed to the extraction and refining of raw materials like lithium, cobalt, and nickel that are needed for batteries, as well as the energy-intensive manufacturing process of BEVs.

[MulberryDraw]

There is some minimum number of miles an EV or a hybrid has to go before it is worth having instead of an ICE vehical. For me, I simply don’t drive enough to make either an EV or a hybrid worth it. And after reading some of the great points made in this thread, I think that minimum number if miles is even higher than I previously thought.