Electric Car question....

[bondtoys]

Originally Posted by joli160

Well, you do need to take all the polluting required to produce an EV into account.
Think about the devastating effects of mining for the batteries. It’s too easy to just look at the CO2 output.

The ecological footprint of an EV is not all that sunny as we are led to believe.
There was a Belgian professor who calculated that an EV needs to drive 700k kilometer to become break even.
Under great pressure he had to adjust his numbers… we all know what happens if you vent an unpopular opinion especially with facts to back it up.

I continue using a very efficient EU6 petrol engine with soot filter and believe that I have a lesser negative impact on the world around me compared to driving an EV.

Oh, yes, getting coal and oil out of the soil is totally harmless to nature ;). Most of the ingredients of batteries can be recycled - if not now in the near future. An obstacle to overcome - not impossible and no reason not to go EV.

I for my part will use the batteries of my EV in 8-10 years in my house to store solar energy - when the time has come to replace the battery.

And your belgian professor should do the math again - if he exists at all.
General consensus is that depending on the battery size, an EV will catch up the additional CO2 footprint after 20k -70k kilometers - also depending where the electric energy is generated from.