The massive push to increase electric vehicle adoption and restrict gas-powered car sales could inadvertently lead to higher emissions and consumer costs.
The article is kinda vague, but has some gems:
“It depends on when and where you charge the vehicle,” he told Fox News Digital. “Then you have to add to that, the emissions that occur before you get the vehicle in your driveway for the first time because all vehicles entail CO2 emissions associated with the energy you use to build the vehicle. You use of materials and machines to build everything.”
“For an internal combustion engine, something on the order of 15 to 20% of the emissions that is associated with the vehicle over its lifetime of operating occur before you drive it,” he continued. “With an electric vehicle, the share of emissions range from 15% to 100% of total lifecycle emissions. And they’re far greater than the conventional vehicle because you’re building a fuel tank, a battery, on difficult-to-acquire metals.”
Individual personal transportation in the form of cars is not the solution, regardless of how they are powered. Electric cars are at best kicking the problem a couple years into the future.
Any reasonable climate as well as social goals can only be achieved with public transportation and walkable/bikable neighbourhoods.