I remember a lot of people making similar comments about the Nissan leaf for having the zero emission badge on the back. Did anyone ever genuinely look at a little badge on a car and think oh that must mean zero emission in sourcing the materials, building the car, driving the car, charging the car, disposing of the car? Is it even possible to manufacture anything of that size and complexity, on this sort of scale while producing absolutely zero emission anywhere? Im sure this is just used as extra ammunition by people who are against EV’s in general you know
I don’t mate what the hell is going on in the UK, as a whole anymore and here we have the watchdog going agains’t/saying the opposite of what the government is saying with its zev mandate. That said its all requires an element of common sense as you pointed out.
I often think a more natural migration to EV’s would have been better, given the industry time to naturally progress and a natural reduction in overall costs as it moved forward. Intead we have governments coming out with these zev mandates, which in return is making manufacturers find cheap alternatives to current battery tech, which doesn’t have as high kW/kg density meaning they won’t travell as far as current tech. Ontop of that mnaufacturers are trying to reduce vehicle costs in other build area’s to meet the zev mandate. Rather than advancing its just pushing it back/behind previous advancements. I blame governments idelolgy you know ?