alt Hacker News> As the EU continues its course to ban the sale of ICE cars by 2035, the argument of "fewer cars make for cleaner air" is gradually losing weight.
Complete nonsense I'm afraid. An EV is about 50% cleaner and way quieter. That's literally it. There's no other real benefits of it.
An EV is still a car:
- Still pollutes: it's a 2 ton vehicle with rubber tires - manufacturing that is very damaging to the environment and the tires constantly wear down
- Takes up a lot of space
- Incredibly dangerous to anyone not in a similar metal cage (hence 20mph limits)
- Super expensive
EVs are only quieter at very low speeds. If they're going 20 mph or less, they're great, but any faster and air and rolling resistance is most of what you hear.
It's also just as easy for a sociopath in an EV to roll down the windows and blast the neighborhood with noise from the stereo.
EVs are better in the sense that the mufflers of ICE vehicles can be deliberately defeated by twits.