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Why EVs won’t save the world
Switching to electric vehicles helps—but it’s not enough. Tackling climate change means rethinking nearly everything we do on a planet straining under 8 billion people.
If and when the world’s vehicle population fully converts to all-electric, how much difference will it make to climate change? Many readers.
Not enough. Indeed, it is not certain it will make any difference at all, because it will depend on how the electricity they use is generated, whether future technical advance reduces the energy used in their manufacture, and whether it offsets the additional weight etc. that electric vehicles impose with other negative impacts on the environment, and so on.
