AlgUSF
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An electric vehicle typically weighs more than a comparable ICE vehicle. It requires more energy to move a larger mass. I disagree that ICEs never get "less polluting". I have an 02 Civic, it still gets roughly the same gas mileage and range that it did brand new 20 years ago. The environmental costs of its manufacture were paid decades ago, a typical EV battery degrades from the second it is manufactured until it reaches the end of it's "useful life" which I hear is around 10 years. Once the battery is toast, the vehicle is essentially written off and now there is a new environmental cost of the disposal and manufacture of a new EV. In the real world, everything has a cost, you trade pros and cons of each.Even from a coal fired plant, the emissions output to charge an EV are far less than the tailpipe emissions from an ICE. And electric doesn't have to come from coal, as infrastructure gets cleaner, so does your EV.
EVs are generally not zero emissions that is true, but they are lower emission than an ICE and can only get better. An existing ICE will never get any less polluting.
My thought is that a balance of ICE vehicles and EVs are probably the best solution. I love my ICE Jeep, I wouldn't have bought a 4xe if it was the only version available. Nothing against the 4xe but it doesn't fit my use case. We are looking at replacing our van with an EV in then coming years. Like I said in my original post about Economics class, nothing is free, there are trade-offs you need to make for each decision, and every opportunity has a cost somewhere.
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