I never really bought that argument, because sure, an EV car has co2 emissions during manufacturing, but then so does an ICE car.
Also it really downplays the consequence of having fumes being made by the tons in our cities have on our health and the surrounding ecosystems, so, to me, that was always a “we invested too much into our hybrid tech and don’t want to go anywhere else until we have made alot of profit” talk.
I also vaguely remember what OP was talking about. It was also factoring in how dirty the energy was being produced was at the time. So if you add electricity is projected to be dirty for x decades plus the environmental cost of the battery manufacturing. But they probably redid the calculus recently as coal plants have been shutting down way faster than initially predicted.
I never really bought that argument, because sure, an EV car has co2 emissions during manufacturing, but then so does an ICE car.
Also it really downplays the consequence of having fumes being made by the tons in our cities have on our health and the surrounding ecosystems, so, to me, that was always a “we invested too much into our hybrid tech and don’t want to go anywhere else until we have made alot of profit” talk.
I also vaguely remember what OP was talking about. It was also factoring in how dirty the energy was being produced was at the time. So if you add electricity is projected to be dirty for x decades plus the environmental cost of the battery manufacturing. But they probably redid the calculus recently as coal plants have been shutting down way faster than initially predicted.