61. Those Evil EV’s - AGAIN?
Those Evil EV’s - AGAIN? Let’s say you’re an average consumer household in 2023. You’re thinking about your next car, and about The Climate Problem, and whether you should take the plunge to electric vehicles, and if so - how electric? Gas hybrid? Plug-In hybrid? Full-on battery electric vehicle? What’s the most practical way to reduce my transportation carbon emissions, you ask? But then again, what’s up with these articles you’ve noticed lately, making disturbing claims about how carbon-intensive the battery EVs really are, how they compare terribly to plug-in hybrids and, yes, even to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars? How can this be? Have those climate crazies been pulling the wool over our eyes again? Do electric vehicles make any sense after all?? This can be especially unsettling when you see something in a respectable paper, one whose articles you had thought one could generally have faith in. Consider, for instance, a recent op-ed in the New York Times (Peter Coy, Jul