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I've seen a lot of posts here on Lemmy, specifically in the "fuck cars" communities as to how Electric Vehicles do pretty much nothing for the Climate, but I continue to see Climate activists everywhere try pushing so, so hard for Electric Vehicles.

Are they actually beneficial to the planet other than limiting exhaust, or is that it? or maybe exhaust is a way bigger problem?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

A lot of what you're saying is also future casting, though. Today's batteries aren't quite yet there (I'm hoping the solid state batteries toyota claims will be in cars in 2027 comes to fruition), the infrastructure isn't quite there yet, 98% of apartments etc aren't new construction with those chargers installed yet, and just fyi, if you're charging your battery to 100% every day you're battery is going to degrade quicker than the average. The most damage to ev batteries in the charge cycle is the last 10% of range and first 15% (depending on your vehicles programming. Generally 0% isn't really 0 and 100% isn't actually 100 for this reason).

Then, of course, you've paid more for the EV and if you keep it over 10 years it will take a much bigger price decline in value than an ice vehicle. This varies a lot depending on how often you plan to replace yours.

For myself, I'm staying ice or hybrids until the ev batteries are better. I like my hybrid and they'll go over 300,000 miles if you take care of them. I put a new oem hybrid battery in mine last year I bought for $1900 and the car has 0 issues with 240,000 miles on it so far.