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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by jwestbury on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:05AM (#36723402)
Engineering Explained went into this in some detail in a video about five years ago[0]. The key takeaway: If two people were driving the same car, and one sold their car and bought an electric car whilst the other kept driving the old car, it would take less than five years (on average) for the electric car to have less emissions than the old, ICE vehicle.

There are certainly some other moral questions here, involving treatment of labour in places where, e.g., we mine for lithium, but those are a bit harder to quantify. The quantifiable aspects are pretty clear, and electric cars are the clear winner.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM

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