This echoes some of the sentiments I posted on another thread. But in short, what have/will EV's actually solve? They were first (and in some cases) still touted as the green alternative to fossil fuels and emissions. The original facts beaten into submission were focused on tail pipe emissions and to that extent it's true. But if you look holistically at the entire lifecycle from mining to shipping, to manufacture, to charging to end of life disposal, they aren't better than ICE's. In some cases they are much worse in terms of cost, ecological, environmental, international trade and humanitarian impact. And all of this for what benefit? In most cases EV's are still performing much worse than ICE's - some that are critically important to 99% of Rv'ers are dramatic failures. So what's the point? Ev's haven't solved anything. They've just created new problems and kicked the can down the road - and at the cost of performance. Were it not for the billions of taxpayer dollars injected into this and auto makers forced into submission, EV's would have never taken off in a free market- as evidenced over the past 100 years.
