… Yet, the environmental harms of electric vehicles have been well documented: mining for the materials to make the batteries causes devastation to local ecosystems. Their production is also harmful to the people who live where they are built, leading to increased toxicity levels compared to traditional car manufacturing.
Even their emission reductions are modest. In provinces that use renewable energy, like Manitoba, electric cars reduce emissions by 70 per cent, but in most places in the world where electricity still mainly comes from fossil fuels, that number falls to 30 per cent.
Takeaway: EV’s are pretty much useless but we should build em anyway.
