[Tell It Right]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if EV's are worse for the environment than ICE cars. Especially if all things are equal (i.e. relatively new EV sedan vs relatively new ICE sedan, not new EV car vs decades old ICE pickup like the left often does).

However, I do have problems with these details:

It found that EVs are 30 percent heavier on average than gas-powered vehicles, which causes the brakes and tire treads to wear out faster than standard cars and releases tiny, often toxic particles into the atmosphere.

Our EV crossover weighs about 10% more than the ICE crossover it replaced, not 30%. Enough for me to do the math on tire wear to see if an EV was worth it (among many pro's and con's)? Yes. Enough for it to be a decision breaker? Not in our situation. Especially given that the regen braking seems to result in way less wear on the brake pads (the other part of the quote above that I have a problem with).

There are many valid arguments against the left forcing or incentivizing EV's onto people. And there are many reasons for a lot of people to not buy an EV in a free market. But the two points here IMHO aren't valid.

[piytar]

Fair enough to an extent. The reality though is just making the batteries for an EV causes far more environmental damage than any ICE could. That’s not even counting when they burn. And it will be even worse when they have to dispose of all these batteries. That will be an environmental disaster.

[piytar]

Oh and BTW I do not vouch for the article. Just thought it was worth posting...