https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/analysis-just-how-green-are-electric-vehicles
I have no reason to disbelieve it – they state that to break even, as in produce the same co2 as a petrol car, from the start of manufacturing onwards, cars will have to do (depending on the scientifically based calculation you use) between 18,640 miles to a staggering 435,000 and that’s completely ignoring the end of life of the battery.
To continue with your ridiculous comparison to beating your wife, bearing in mind I do about 7000 miles a year, it’s effectively saying “I should beat seven shades of nasty stuff out of my wife for the next few weeks, then I’ll drop it WAY down to the occasional slap, and by the end of the 3rd year of it, she might have been hit less but then again, it might take as long as 62 years for it to level out and end up in her favour”
As for the irreplaceable fossil fuel comment, NO-ONE KNOWS how much is or isn’t left, or how quickly new sources are developing – all you have to go on is estimates and guesses. The fact is, as Fossil Fuels are created by the very gradual breakdown of things in the earth, every minute of every day there’s a bit more being created – we have no way to know how quickly or in what quantity so irreplaceable is a complete misnomer.
Over the lifetime of the car the EV won’t continue to produce CO2? So every owner is using 100% CO2 neutral energy sources to charge up are they? They’ve also all managed to source tyres, repair parts, service parts etc. from 100% CO2 neutral sources too?
Every point I made was 100% correct, and based on established scientific facts, and for yours, you have to ignore several points or assume things.
Actually, I would go as far as to say you’re even wrong when you agree with my comment about EV’s making financial sense – they will only do so if the car user is going to do enough miles while they have the car to offset the additional outlay of the car compared to the cost savings in electricity vs Petrol/Diesel.
I haven’t looked up your suggested sources of information. Based on nothing more than the titles I think it’s fairly safe to assume they’re going to be every bit as one-sided and biased as you claim the things I have looked at are.
“If you have to exaggerate a point to make it, it’s probably not worth making” is something I deeply believe in, which is why I DO do my research and look at both sides of something. I’m not normally one for assumptions, but based on pretty much everything you wrote, I doubt you’re the same way.
"Man is born in freedom, but he soon becomes a slave, in cages of convention, from the cradle, to the grave."