but here is where I feel the point is being missed and rarely mentioned my car emits nothing and now it’s built and found it’s way to my location you can lie a new born baby in a crib next to it and so long as you put the handbrake on no harm will come to the child. Not one of my neighbours can say that and they all have kids.
Indeed but, think of the polution of villagers and their babies who live near the mining towns that extract the minerals and rare earth metals that are used in the batteries of EV’s. The increased mining for these materials have seen the health of those people who live in villages close to the mines decline due to cancer causng pollution. More and more villages have also been buried from the additional mining to meet world demand. The recent articles seen of man going to the last untouched place on earth in its goal for rare earth deep sea mining, who knows what effect this will have and many scientists are agaisn’t the idea. The ocean is a great carbon storerand whoknows the consequencies of disturbing swaths of ocean floor in the few countrie where its found. So yes there is always 2 sides of the coin!
Who would blame those wanting cheaper running costs especially those at the middle to lower end of the richness scale but, if it wasn’t for Motability many on here wouldn’t beable to afford the additional cost to buy an EV in the first place. Even on the scheme a medium to large family 4/5 door EV is out the reach of affordability for many. Then there are those such as me where the winter mileage of an EV will not cut it and are not ready for one. But, like anything in life there are always two sides of the coin…