Reply to post: Re: Perhaps a hybrid would be a better solution?

The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points

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Re: Perhaps a hybrid would be a better solution?

It's also significantly cheaper in terms of environmental costs, both globally and locally.

I'll ignore the stuff about new EVs costing nearly the same as new petrol cars, because it's demonstrably false, and just stick with this one.

How is it cheaper in environmental costs? It is the rub of my entire issue with the "sustainable" electrificaion of everything - it is absolutely terrible for the environment, in many ways. Yes, what we are doing now is also bad, but switching to electric and carrying on as before is absolutely not the answer.

When I see an EV battery factory powered solely by wind and solar, then I'll change my tune. As it is, China and other Asian countries happily burn millions of tonnes of coal to manufacture all of the "sustainable" crap we by, as it is all very energy-intensive to produce.

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