Can Electric vehicles still be considered environmentally friendly when the factories they are made in still produce emissions?
Can Electric vehicles still be considered environmentally friendly when the factories they are made in still produce emissions?
An ICE vehicle burns fuel to operate so the longer it operates the more fuel it’s burned. Even though an EV starts with a deeper environmental deficit than an ICE, that situation improves the longer it operates because it’s not burning gasoline. That equation improves even further if that EV is charged using renewables like solar.
And and and - batteries can be recycled up to 95%. So dig up the lithium once and use it again and again and again.
You can’t do that with oil or gas.