EVs have a lot of positive…
EVs have a lot of positive characteristics. In regions with very bad air pollution (NOX, SOX, Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Particulates) due to Internal Combustion Engines, like the Sputh Coast Air Quality Management Dustrict (SCAQMD) in the LA air basin, it makes sense to maximize EVs versus ICE cars. But EVs DO NOT REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND GLOBAL WARMING. Outside the Columbia River Basin, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which have huge hydropower and nuclear power plants, EVs get their electricity from burning coal and natural gas. They are NOT "zero emission vehicles" for CO2 (most people don't know the difference between carbon monoxide, which is poisonous, and carbon dioxide, which every human and animal exhales and which is essential to plant photosynthesis). On average, manufacturing the batteries for an EV emits the same amount of CO2 as driving an ICE car 50,000 miles, but the EV CO2 is generated on Day Zero and is heating the atmosphere during the 4 or 5 years the ICE car is catching up to the EV's CO2 amount. But because the EV has been warming the earth for those extra years, it takes the ICE car another 50,000 miles to match the global warming effect of the EV. Between the EV's accelerated CO2 emissions, and the ADDED CO2 emissions from generating electricity for the EV, over the life of the EV it generates just as much global warming as an ICE car! A more rational way to reduce CO2 emissions compared to ICE cars is to use HYBRID cars, which do NOT generate a huge slug of greenhouse gases at birth, do not burn coal, and reduce CO2 generation by 50 to 60% over ICE-only engines. Hybrid cars REDUCE CO2 emissions while EVs do NOT. This is simple math, but governments are too stupid to understand that global warming is a function of CO2 emissions multiplied by time! EVs are SPEEDING UP GLOBAL WARMING. Simple math.