What's the problem with electric cars?

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Originally Posted by Whippy

Lithium battery cells? Totally safe

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/w...uth-korea.html

Nothing to see here, move along now.

That probably says more about poor health and safety, fire alarms and evacuation procedures at that factory than batteries.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/co...ack-to-petrol/

Go back 4 or 5 years I would've loved a Tesla. Just because they were cool.

Now, nah.

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Originally Posted by Kev0607

That is true. There’s always going to be emissions… It will never be truly zero. New ICE cars will no longer be produced by 2035, leaving only the used market for ICE vehicles or EV’s then.

I’m not entirely convinced of how “green” EV’s are. It’s not just infrastructure for EV’s that needs looking at. Cleaner ways to produce the energy required to charge and manufacture them also has to be considered. Huge investment is required globally. exoticautoservices.ae/car-programming-in-abu-dhabi/

I think people often forget that there may be no tail pipe emissions from an EV, but the electric to charge it doesn’t magically appear. If everyone is driving around in EV’s in future, will we really be tackling emissions? Taking into account that renewable energy to charge these cars isn’t totally “green” either. The more EV’s that are on the road, that increases the volume of the production of electricity to keep them going electrical solutions for all car models, which in turn increases emissions. We can’t rely solely on wind. Progress has been made, but like everything, its going to take a long time and a lot of money to produce more sustainable non-fossil fuel energy.

There is no easy solution, but we could be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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