Report justifying electric vehicle's environmentally friendly status
But I'm missing something as what they state does not compute to their final conclusion
Found this - not quite on narrative even if it is a greenie website:
https://get-green-now.com/environmental-impact-electric-vehicle-batteries/
I liked this bit:
"According to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the production of a full-sized long-range electric vehicle (similar to a Tesla Model S) adds about 6 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, 68% higher than the production of a comparable gasoline car. "
https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-global-warming-emissions-953/
The summary:
Summary of Main Takeaways & Key Statistics
Electric car batteries are lithium-ion batteries made mainly of lithium-containing compounds like lithium carbonate. They may also contain materials like cobalt and other chemical additives or dissolved metals.
Manufacturing an electric vehicle similar to a Tesla Model S creates 6 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, 68% more than the production of a comparable gasoline car. Most of these emissions come from producing the battery.
It takes 500,000 gallons of water to refine one ton of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3)
The chemicals and processes used in mining lithium create air, water, and soil pollution
Less than 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled. If thrown in landfills, EV batteries can leach chemicals into the ground and into water, or even cause toxic chemical fires
So taking that into account how did it justify the last statement?
However, even when taking into account the extra environmental damage from electric car batteries, the average electric car in the United States produces about half the total emissions of a comparable gasoline car.
And how does “environmental damage” become the same as CO2 emissions? Not even comparable.
So if you ignore everything else, including the manufacturing emissions and diesel vehicles and just go on exhaust fumes from petrol engined vehicles, while you are driving around EVs are better than gasoline cars.
Don’t ask me as I can’t understand it either.
I guess it is the same as in recent years the statement in virtually every officially approved covid jab study that no matter what they found about the adverse events, deaths etc or the mask studies that claimed to show they worked they had to use the phrase that the jabs were the best way to save us all as they are safe and effective or that they worked to stop you getting the dreaded lurgy or the screaming habjabs.
Don’t put that in, don’t get approve and published.
But when you actually read the full study and not just the conclusion you end up thinking “how the f&*k did they come to that conclusion with that data?”