this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
2020 points (96.1% liked)
Memes
45673 readers
949 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why aren't EVs that green?
Manufacturing, generation of electricity with heavy use of fossil fuels (could be changed and is changing in many places, luckily) and particulate matter (for example through tire wear) mainly.
Still better than ICEs though.
Then too, the current EVs are going to evolve. We are just at an awkward stage of development.
Then they should get much smaller and lighter. If they have to get their tires and brake pad replaced for wear every so often, where are those particles going? Unless they evolve tires and breaks that don't shed particles in the water and the air, or get very very light batteries.
Yeah. Surely buying more tech stuff will save us. We just need to sell even more cars, but "ecological", and the car pollution problem will be solved in time, with even more cars, but less polluting this time! Truly a marvel of engineering.