YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation

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YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation - Lemmy.World

YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the … [continued]

To be fair EVs only solve the tail pipe emission problem of cars and not like the 50 others. It’s would be much better to focus on public transit and pedestrian and bike infrastructure, that solves more issues and is accessible to everyone.
They solve tailpipe emissions AND all the emissions associated with mining, refining and transporting the fuel - which is enormous and usually left out of the calculations. Public transportation / walkable infrastructure is god-tier but lots of people live away from dense neighbourhoods. Ev’s are not a golden bullet solution to climate change but they’re pretty good and neither is anything else. It makes sense to attack the issue from as many angles as possible instead of getting all tunnel-vision about one particular solution.

all the emissions associated with mining, refining and transporting the fuel

Not trying to be pedantic… But, EVs have the same essential issue, their batteries require the same mining, refining, and transportation process as any other powered vehicle. And if your electricity isn’t sourced from renewables, you’re just kicking the problem down the road.

The mining only happens once. The materials in batteries are infinitely recyclable.

Oil is single use and the impacts of mining it has caused sooooooo much damage, news agencies don’t even both covering it anymore.

While it is recyclable unfortunately no one is doing that as recycling is more expensive than mining.