Passenger cars cause a lot of pollution, but electric vehicles have their own problems.
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To solve the climate crisis, we need to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the air. Cars produce a lot of them, so the solution is to replace them with electric cars. And that’s a great solution for car manufacturers, because they can keep selling vehicles to consumers. But those cars still create a lot of pollution, still crash and kill people at intersections, and still require massive, carbon-producing resources to build. And that’s before we get to batteries, which themselves rely on scarce resources that have to be mined from the earth.
"The reality is that producing huge numbers of electric vehicle batteries, while formidable, is not the biggest challenge. Sourcing the materials needed for advanced, high-density powertrain batteries in environmentally friendly ways, in North America, is a bigger problem with no easy solution," Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal, told Lifewire in an email.
Electric vehicles (EVs) are much better than gasoline-powered cars in many ways. They don’t pollute the air in the city. They are much quieter at low speeds, and they can be powered by renewable energy sources like wind and solar. But they are only green compared to current oil-powered vehicles. Building an electric car is still building a car. The biggest problem with an EV is the batteries.
