Electric vehicles have gained popularity as a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. Although they have significant environmental benefits, they also present some adverse effects. The impacts of electric vehicles on the environment are described below:
1. Production Emissions: Although electric cars do not emit exhaust gases during use, the production of their batteries involves emissions. These emissions come from the manufacturing process and the electricity needed to charge the batteries.
2. Battery Disposal: Electric vehicle batteries should be recycled or disposed of properly at the end of their useful life. Battery recycling can be expensive and requires careful management to avoid negative impacts on the environment.
3. Electricity Demand: The growth of electric vehicles will increase the demand for electricity. If not handled properly, this could create challenges in the power system, especially during peak hours. Additionally, if the electricity comes from non-renewable sources, it could add to the problem rather than alleviate it.
4. Lower Carbon Footprint: Despite the aforementioned adverse effects, electric vehicles still have a lower carbon footprint compared to gasoline vehicles. This is due to the absence of exhaust emissions and the use of cleaner energy during operation.
In summary, although electric vehicles offer significant environmental advantages, it is important to address their challenges to maximize their positive impact on the environment.
As per today EV have a greater negative impact on the environment when sold in the store than a combustion vehicle, when taking the whole production process and technology of today into account. This equalises during the use, since EVs on the road have zero emission. This means an EV has to run some ten thousands of miles until it is the same impact as a combustion / gasoline vehicle.
Further you have to take the source of power into account (gas power plant, nuklear, solar,....). Moreover it depends what you will do with the battery pack after usage (second life, scrap it,...).
There are many studies in the internet and depending on which lobby the producer of that study belongs, it varies massive in the milage you have to drive until it equalises.
There are also studies which do not take the production process into account, which makes the EV the friendlier one. Also there are studies which uses future technology outlook (better batteries, more CO2 neutral power,...) to come to an EV friendlier result.
At the end, the answer to your question is more 42, and depends on what you're up to.
pollution on earth are air, water and soil pollution. Air pollution increases the lungs decease like asthma, cancer and other blood cells deceases, with other breathing problems, water pollution increases liver and kidney deceases and with soil pollution (Nuclear power generation considered clean)digestive system problems could increased.
Among all air pollution control is more important than other two, and is taken care by EVs. on roads. Or could be said that the distributed air pollution and carbon emissions are transfer to fossil fuel fired generating stations supplying grid having charging stations keeping pollution the same.The fossil fuels generating stations could be reduced by noman charging stations on roadside or in backyard working on solar or wind power.
Coal the cheapest, most of generation is on coal fired generating stations and could be eliminated, by solar and wind powered generating stations. Pollution increased the global warming and costal soil erosion have increased due to raising sea level, with costal salty water for drinking water, which could be solved, by costal bridge-dam roads on coastal areas rivers to sea junctions, having beautiful lakes beaches and the NALse JAL to population as done in western costal areas of Gujarat, India, reducing liver and kidney deceased population considerably stopping costal soil erosion with safe and security refer fb page BVM 89🙏
Production will be a topic to discuss. And if you are charging it with electricity from the grid, then you have to consider the representative electric CO2 emission from the electricity mix of your country.
A study at the University of Michigan using feedback loops has concluded that Storage will counterintuitively increase coal-based generation in preference to Gas. Hence, EVs, like storage, can affect climate change mitigation efforts unless coupled with renewable generation strictly.
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