EVs are dirtier for the environment. EVs have more maintenance costs, when one factors in the necessary battery changes, higher insurance, and tires. EVs are much harder on the roads due to their excessive weight. They need to be paying their Fair Share!
Maintenance costs?
Regenerative braking, so brake pads last well over 100k miles.
No oil, coolant, exhaust, transmission fluid.
Just windshield fluid and tires
A Kilowatt is a kilowatt- whether it’s in a car or your home’s AC or heater. EV owners pay per charge, when not at home (where a vast majority charge; cause it’s way cheaper than elsewhere) it’s still less than half of what it costs to fill a car’s tank. May take longer; but it’s $~50 to top off my car and about $~25 for 250 miles range for a Model 3
Battery life; that’s generally in excess of 150k miles. But we have batteries being recycled today as the lithium, Nickle, copper, magnesium and other materials can be recovered at ~90+% efficiency and they are quite valuable. It’s like throwing gold plated PC boards into the landfill back in thr 1970’s. We don’t do that anymore
Exactly! And mining for lithium is very bad {insert virtue signally tone here} “for the planet.” And EVs have a higher tendency to catch fire. Also bad {insert virtue signally tone again} “for the planet.”
“EVs are dirtier for the environment.”
The environment is just fine except in big democrat cities which can’t be fixed.