• Eczpurt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think I understand the argument against EV’s for their electricity source very well. Isn’t the electricity for the car being generated anyways? It’d be like saying your television is polluting worse than an ICE car or your hot tub/clothes dryer for a more power hungry example.

    It takes some guy gasoline to truck gasoline to the electric pump and the powered gas station to fill your car with gasoline. Like am I missing something or are people arguing just to argue?

    Unless this whole article was satire and it whooshed right over me.

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      2 months ago

      The general idea is that the production of the electronics is far more destructive than making an ICE drive system. I am not well read on recent changes, but there was a point where that statement was true, but even then the electronics weren’t worse from greenhouse gas standpoint, just from other toxins.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        The general idea is that the production of the electronics is far more destructive than making an ICE drive system.

        That’s the general idea of this article. But many people have the correct general idea that it’s better to drive an old ICE car then to build a new EV. This is not debunked or even mentioned by this article.