The Unpopular Truth About Electric Vehicles | Mark P. Mills
A longer lecture:
https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu...ctric-vehicles
Highlights:
- EVs aren't necessarily simpler than ICE, the complexity moves from the motor to the battery.
- The total subsidy for each US BEV is around $30k, yet OEMs still are losing approximatly $50k per car.
- BEVs have a negligible impact on overall oil consumption. Each one may turn positive after around the 50,000 mile mark.
- To make a 1000 lb battery, somewhere on earth (not the USA?!) 500,000 lbs of rock/soil need to mined and refined (using mostly fossil fuels). We're blind to the overall effects of pollution and environmental impacts because it is done elsewhere.
- The low residual values of used EVs represent a huge destruction of government capital that will benefit other countries.