{"id":56513,"date":"2021-01-26T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56513"},"modified":"2021-01-26T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:29:37","slug":"are-evs-good-for-the-environment-mostly-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56513","title":{"rendered":"Are EVs good for the environment? – Mostly Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are EVs good for the environment? – Mostly Not!<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The idea Electric vehicles are less damaging to the environment has been broadly accepted by many people as fact.\u00a0The notion EVs are good for the planet is a key factor for many of those deciding to buy an electric car.<\/b>\u00a0This debate has become rather political with a recent article in Barron’s pointing out that some of the research damning electric cars has been funded by Saudi oil interest.\u00a0Part of the argument flowing out of this centers on the idea that policies incentivizing electric-car production will lead to the creation of more carbon emissions during coming years than if we were to instead encourage the use of efficient gasoline engines.<\/p>\n

It is not surprising that people are going to try and shape conclusions and public opinion to serve their strategic interests.<\/b>\u00a0The direction society takes is a high-stakes game since the EU, Japan, Korea, and 110 other countries have pledged carbon neutrality by 2050. This is why countries such as China have extended $100 billion thus far in EV subsidies, the fact is China wants to make many of these vehicles. This is the main reason shares in Chinese EV manufacturers such as NIO and Xpeng have followed Tesla stock higher in recent months.<\/p>\n

Adding to claims of agenda “propaganda” is the fact that a lengthy and detailed EV study by the\u00a0Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(ORNL), published in the scientific journal\u00a0\u201cNature Communications,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0was paid for by oil giant Saudi Aramco, which counts China as its largest customer. This indicates how little transparency exists around private companies\u2019 financial or other involvement in the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s research. Some analysts say that Aramco\u2019s role in producing the research is a potential conflict of interest and that the relationship between Aramco and ORNL highlights a broader concern about how some companies fund scientific research only to directly support their business interests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Are EVs good for the environment? – Mostly Not! EVs Still Charged By Electricity From Fossil Fuel The idea Electric vehicles are less damaging to the environment has been broadly accepted by many people as fact.\u00a0The notion EVs are good for the planet is a key factor for many of those deciding to buy an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[27339,26559,13275,1103,16000,328],"class_list":["post-56513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-advancing-time-blog","tag-bruce-wilds","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-electricity","tag-evs","tag-fossil-fuels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56514,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56513\/revisions\/56514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}