Electric vehicles:
-- Are more
expensive,
even though
they are heavily
subsidized by
the taxpayers,
( and most owners
are relatively wealthy
virtue signalers ! )
-- Require more energy
to manufacture
(especially the batteries)
One International Energy
Agency study says you
have to drive an electric car
at least 60,000 km to justify
the higher carbon cost
of manufacture.
“Clean” electricity is mainly
generated by fossil fuels,
Here in the Detroit, Michigan
suburbs, DTE energy uses
about 64% coal to generate
the electrtcity that our
neighbors use to charge
their Tesla electric cars !
The average
U.S. use of coal
to generate electricity
is about half
of that 64%,
but let's not forget
electric vehicles
are partially
"coal burners"
in most locations.
One US study shows
the richest quarter
of people receive
almost all of the
taxpayer's money
spent on electric
vehicle subsidies.
Nine out of ten
U.S. households
that own an
electric vehicle
also have
a conventional
internal combustion
engine car or truck.
U.S. electric cars
are driven
fewer kilometres,
on average each year,
than conventional vehicles:
11,200km, compared with
16,400km for gasoline and
diesel-powered vehicles.