There's a narrative that EVs are just as bad for the environment due to battery manufacturing. Turns out, that's not even close to true.
Electric vehicles are here in full force, and while they’re still more expensive than their gas-powered counterparts, prices are slowly, but surely coming down. In fact, EVs are likely to be just as affordable as internal combustion engine vehicles in the next few years. But like anything, there are pros and cons to buying an EV over an ICE vehicle.
Manufacturing Before you can even start to think of building and selling a car, you have to have the materials to do so. There are plenty of similar materials in both electric and ICE vehicles — but there are also vastly different ones. In other words, as they roll off the production line, electric vehicles have a so-called “carbon debt” compared to their gas-powered counterparts.
According to a report from Recurrent, when charging a car using the one of the “dirtiest” energy grids in the U.S. , it takes EVs 1.9 years to reach carbon parity with ICE vehicles. On one of the cleanest grids in the U.S., which is the CAMX eGrid, it only takes 1.4 years.
Mining rare earth materials is associated with a few issues, apart from greenhouse gas emissions. For example, studies have linked mining rare earth materials with negative effects on human health. Neodymium dust, for example, can irritate the eyes and skin, and even cause liver damage over longer periods of exposure. That’s not to mention the fact that many rare earth mines are associated with humans rights abuses.
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