How green are electric cars? | It's Complicated
How green are electric cars? | It's Complicated
There’s no denying that electric vehicles are what most of us will be driving in the near-future. Countries around the world have pledged to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles over the next few decades, in an effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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But with lingering questions over the mining of rare metals, battery manufacturing and electricity consumption, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates whether electric vehicles are as green as we’ve been led to believe
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The last suggestion applies only to smaller European countries… But, for highly populated and larger countries of Asia and Africa, your suggestions are non relevant… EV manufacturing carbon emissions can be localized and control much easily than wide spread carbon emissions from fossil fuel vehicles and difficult to control… EV option has pros and cons but pros weighs more…
It’s not only about changing the type of energy we use but how we use it. The whole oil extraction, processing, distribution and usage are extremely inefficient. Well generating electricity efficiency can’t depend, using a EV motor to use that energy is vastly more energy efficient then burning gas!
Anthropogenic Co2 has a positive impact on earth
ICE cars far out way EV problems, their is one big problem with ICE cars You Won’t Believe What’s Really is Putting ICE Owners at Risk LUNG CANCER that is right LUNG CANCER from tail pipe emissions. I know what you are saying "it won’t happen to me" but if it does it’s to late. I am not worried about a EV fire that’s what insurance is for but insurance can’t fix your health. I didn’t hear this from anybody, I went to these sites and got the real facts National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Guardian, American Cancer Society and the list goes on. There was 250,000 new Lung Cancer cases globally in 2020
Yes EV Best protect nature 😊
Public transportation was the way around once and I still believe it still is. Let’s be frank, we are spoiled people who should have a car of our own but still want to present ourselves as environmental friendly. Yes, I am sure we are.
nope…
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Do ont worry. I wont ever be switching
Evs have a simpler drive system, but a much more complex energy storage. Batteries have from hundreds to thousands of parts. A gas tank in a regular car has 2 parts, tank and pump. All theyve done is move the complexity
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EVs are killing people, Animals and the Environment. Use gasoline cars or finally give us the engine where we only need water and still use gasoline engines.
Undeniably better for the environment…you eventually say it but, you bury the truth beneath a pile of negative issues that all autos have. Both are bad for the environment in terms of extracting, transporting & processing the raw resources…
No!
Stop private jets
grass is greener
Almost everything is complicated if you dig deep enough, but there is an answer and it’s yes EVs are much greener than gassers
This is something that nobody talks about. The Guardian reported that In Norway, which has the world’s highest proportion of electric cars sales, there are between four and five times more fires in petrol and diesel cars. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency found that the were 3.8 fires per 100,000 electric or Hybrid in 2022 compared with 68 fires per 100,000 cars when taking all fuel types into account. Australia’s EV FireSafe found there was a 0.0012% chance of a passenger electric vehicle battery catching fire, compared with a 0.1% chance for internal combustion engine fire. The chance of survival in a EV is very high as the car smokes for quite sometime before it combusts which gives the occupants time to get out of the vehicle and clear the area. Gas and Diesel vehicles are highly combustible which gives the occupants far less time to exit the vehicle which makes far less safe as your EV counterparts
They not green the batteries are a tome bomb waiting to go off
Use sodium ion batteries instead of lithium
This green energy and electric cars are all a scam. We’ve had technology 75 years ago for gas automobiles a carburetor that would get over 100 miles a gallon. Shell bought the company. continued on the research and had a gas powered vehicle that would get almost 1000 miles a gallon. It was an experimental vehicle that didn’t weigh hardly anything and it was just a see how many miles a gallon they could get out of it. Consumers automobile would’ve been a lot heavier, but I guarantee it would’ve been two 300 miles a gallon. The technology was suppressed. Patents were bought by the petroleum industry because it would’ve cut into their profits. The inventors of this type of technology were given the ultimatum to sell the patent or they would die. There was a guy that had an electric vehicle. . The technology was suppressed. Patents were bought by the petroleum industry because it would’ve cut into their profits. The inventors of this type of technology were given the ultimatum to sell the patent or they would die. There was a guy that had a electric vehicle that didn’t take batteries and it was free energy. It could’ve powered cars homes, etc. etc. He did not sell his patent. It was planning on introducing it to the world and he mysteriously died. There was another inventor of the automobile that ran on water producing hydrogen which the car ran off of. He was eating at a restaurant and he was poisoned to death because he was not going to sell his technology so they got rid of him. Nicole‘s Tesla was building a tower to prove that he could power the world with electricity that surrounds the earth. They shut down his invention and when he passed away, he was broke and they stole all of his technology, his notes, etc., etc. all the inventions that he came up with were suppressed from the public and used in military applications. Almost all inventions that could’ve helped. The public are suppressed from us. So they can take this greed, energy and shove it up their butts. It’s all a scam, corporate greed.
It takes many years to recover the price of an electric vehicle against a normal car , and after those years the battery probably needs replacement , which is the most polluting( in production ) and expensive part of an EV. Also where and how is the electricity generated , as much of the world uses coal , gas etc and this is even more polluting
We have the solution. Our motors are highly efficient and can compete with electric cars in most cases.
As I was scrolling through the comments ,what catches my attention is the lack of Public transportation in rural areas of Western countries .I was a student in Cardiff University, Wales, UK 20 years back. I would have loved to do an assignment based out of a rural outskirt in Wales. I fixed everything but later discovered that there is no public transport anywhere near. Using private transport was not affordable to me and so I dropped it. For Chevening scholars they provided only public transport reimbursements. Coming from India, it was a surprise that there was no public transport in rural UK as we have far better public transport in rural India, even 20 years before. Of-course the quality of it varies, but we a lower income nation can manage with it and that keeps moving us. As of now even in the remote corners , especially in flat Indo-Gangetic terrains though many other things are to be improved, you have Electric powered basic public transport, though rudimentary. This may be the scenario in most of Africa , Latin America and Asia in general.
That’s the socialist solution – make everyone take the bus – take away individual freedoms and make everybody do the same stuff. Governments must manage people down to exactly where they travel – that sounds like the Guardian. Need to think harder, boys. There’s a better solution out there that doesn’t involve destroying the car.
No vroom vroom 🙁
Climate change isn’t a burden that the average citizen has to shoulder.
Anyways, the s15 silvia is a great car
this helped for my essay 👍
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We need proper public transport in urban areas and electric vehicles in rural areas.
Higher airparticles from tires and brakes? Man the trash carcompanies are grasping at straws, eh?
If I saved 24% on the price of say a house I would be delighted.
EVs are not a silver bullet, I agree. But continuing with the present combustion engine model of transportation is still worse over the average lifetime of both vehicles.
There will always be a problem to solve. Having problems to solve with EVs is no reason to just chuck it and continue with combustion engines.
In my city 4 million people use an ev everyday. It’s called subway. Governments just should make life harder for car commuters.
You are not taking my freedom!!!!
This is a funny assessment of costs and emissions. Any vehicle manufacturer can attest to the difficulty of sourcing and manufacturing raw materials and parts. All cars require foreign parts for manufacturing a vehicle assembly. Less parts equals less sourcing and material allocation. A more thorough investigation should be conducted with better data delivery to come to a consensus conclusion.
vehicles not complicated at all, source of electricity still mired in legacy cess pools called ‘oil wells.’
prc announced recently they had passed half-way point in transition to green source power.
rest of the world can do it too, if governments escape bribes and threats from oil wealth.
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They keep on pushing this going green stuff on everyone while making said products more expensive than just the traditional ones 😂
I’m tired of false informations on EVs. Come one "the guardian"… Its not "complicated" : EVs are multiple times cleaner than ICE vehicules during the whole lifecycle. And you make many errors in this video :
– EVs produce far less brake particule due to their regenerative braking
– at the time of your video, the mass market was already flooded with Lfp batteries with no Cobalt in it. And at the same time your forget to mention that ICE consume a lot of cobalt with their filters and petrol production
– then you say that environnemental impact of EVs depends on the electricity production type and it’s true. But you forget to mention that even with coal produced electricity, an EV will still be far better because of its efficiency. In fact the ICE is just a waste of power.
And yes we need to drop the number of cars in general. But EVs are 2 to 7 times better than ICE. So it’s not "complicated"…
Cons about Ecars
Cold/ snow
Fires
charging time
Expensive batteries
the grid
Pollution
no balls
Pros about Ecars
no gas usage
so saying is that mining lithium is more worse then gasoline.
EV drivers are victims of fraudulent marketing aided by the U.S. government that allowed EV makers to multiply the efficiency rating of the vehicles by 6.67 times. In addition, EV drivers need to have their wallet and their brain recharged!
Have to include all the fires – ships sinking , factory disasters .
How green? Worse than fuel. They get produced or delivered without fuel. So your causing more pollution. You wanna go green get back on a horse or get up and use your feet to take you places.
So evs need to be kept until you get over 90k miles before tge offset they become greener than a traditional car
I would bye a internal combustion cars until i die
Capping (or recapping) gas wells that leak methane (above ground & underwater) would be a worthy parallel persuit too.
Wow only 25% less carbon pollution from an EV charged up on coal generated electricity. 25% that’s barely an improvement at all geez only 25%.
So the worst case is EVe save 24% emissions.