You have to remember that american "evs" are all slated to weigh 6,000 pounds or over. They're not like a Nissan leaf or anything. And manufacturers also tune the regen braking way down because Americans are babies and can't figure out how to drive elastically with the pedal and regen on. This is to say, all the same problems with gas cars are essentially copied into evs.
Emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle normally from ICE are frontloaded to rare earth metal mining for enormous batteries and
heavier weights generate more tire wear and require larger tires that are also more wasteful to manufacture. It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
i'm not gonna stand up for cars as a primary solution for transit, but you kinda undermined yourself if this is your thesis since most of those issues are specific to american bullshit.
You have to remember that american "evs" are all slated to weigh 6,000 pounds or over. They're not like a Nissan leaf or anything. And manufacturers also tune the regen braking way down because Americans are babies and can't figure out how to drive elastically with the pedal and regen on. This is to say, all the same problems with gas cars are essentially copied into evs.
Emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle normally from ICE are frontloaded to rare earth metal mining for enormous batteries and heavier weights generate more tire wear and require larger tires that are also more wasteful to manufacture. It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
i'm not gonna stand up for cars as a primary solution for transit, but you kinda undermined yourself if this is your thesis since most of those issues are specific to american bullshit.