Um they are not almost as bad as ICE vehicles. Even including emissions during manufacturing it still only takes a handful of years for most EVs to be more environmentally friendly than an ICE vehicle.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. It depends on your local energy mix, but I think it's better after like 4 years worst case scenario. Here's a video we with more info. https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM?si=tNZr23eRFk41jQ7a

Cars will still have more emissions than busses or trains, especially electric, so we should invest in those.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It takes at least decade for the carbon from manufacturing to be offset by the lack of emissions from the ev’s daily operation.

Assuming zero carbon electricity generation used in the ev. Local electricity mix will adjust that number up.

If you really want to have a bad time: we don’t have enough lithium to replace even half the cars currently on the road, not counting all the other uses for it aside from ev batteries.

The only two ways out of this are fewer cars or fewer people. When someone suggests the latter path, be sure to ask them who and why.