This article irritates me. Yes there are some emissions involved in mining and manufacturing to produce electric vehicles. No, it does not outweigh the emissions of the vehicle over its lifetime. That’s straight up FUD.

I’d like to point out there’s a lot of emissions in the extraction of oil too. Just look at the tar sands of Alberta where heavy oil is literally dug and steamed from the earth at great environmental cost, and then shipped via diesel trains to the US because a pipeline was politically untenable in the US.

We’re going electric for most vehicles, it will be a good thing once there’s enough momentum behind it, and there’s no other viable option. We cannot keep burning oil. People trying to cling to the ICE are on the wrong side of history.