“If consumers and businesses cared about the CO2 they emit, the last cars they might buy are hot-selling EVs like Ford’s Mustang Mach-E or GM’s Hummer EV.”
– Holman W Jenkins, Wall Street Journal ($)
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I think businesses, and, to some lesser extent, people care about the amount of CO₂ that they appear to be emitting, irrespective of the cold hard truth. Virtue signalling is far more about signalling than virtue.
Given that any heterodox view is normally ghettoized, most people would not be aware that there are any environmental problems with EVs.
They’re pretty dangerous too. That hummer weighs 4 tonnes and even ‘normal’ ev’s are substantially heavier than ICE cars. Add to that the high torque electric motors giving ridiculous acceleration potential and we basically have a lot more energy being controlled by people who are used to driving toyota corollas.
I’ve heard (on a car show) that road deaths are basically rising proportionally with ev adoption. Haven’t checked it myself though.