Then you also need to factor in the recycling opportunity for the production.
An EV may have fairly high CO2 emissions during production, but much of that is associated with mining of metals/minerals. Those are generally recyclable. Large scale commercial recycling of EV batteries is already happening. So those CO2 emissions are not for just one vehicle. It’s for many vehicles far into the future.
The CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels will never benefit anything but the one vehicle it’s propelling forward.
You’ve also gotta keep in mind that the mining and industrial transportation sector is also being decarbonised, sometimes with the same EV technology that EV cars are made with. Electric mining dump trucks is now a reality. Keep the long term picture in mind: we actually have a very viable pathway to eliminate whatever minor CO2 emissions are associated with EVs by just pouring more investments and R&D into EV technology.
An EV may have fairly high CO2 emissions during production, but much of that is associated with mining of metals/minerals. Those are generally recyclable. Large scale commercial recycling of EV batteries is already happening. So those CO2 emissions are not for just one vehicle. It’s for many vehicles far into the future.
The CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels will never benefit anything but the one vehicle it’s propelling forward.
You’ve also gotta keep in mind that the mining and industrial transportation sector is also being decarbonised, sometimes with the same EV technology that EV cars are made with. Electric mining dump trucks is now a reality. Keep the long term picture in mind: we actually have a very viable pathway to eliminate whatever minor CO2 emissions are associated with EVs by just pouring more investments and R&D into EV technology.