Odd question to ask, perhaps, on this sub. But I recently had a conversation with someone who is blindly anti-EV and he kept rambling on about a “silent majority” of EV owners who “don’t care at all” about the environment. I personally don’t think that’s true, but I may be (sadly) wrong.
(We are both car enthusiasts, but he leans right, I lean left (and am concerned climate change). In case people are curious)
It would probably be on the list but around the very bottom. The main reason I got an EV was because of how cheap they would be to run. I spend less than $15 monthly on my EV charging (I run 600-700km a month on average.) The same distance on a similarly sized/powered petrol car would have cost me at least 7-8x the money. And also we don’t produce our own oil and gas takes a big chunk of what we import nationally. Gives me a peace of mind whenever the gas prices are hiked or when the supply is affected due to various geo political reasons and I don’t have to queue at the gas station for hours.