Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

[NNadir]

5. I don't have any problem with this; electricity isn't, despite indecent advertising, "green."

World production of electricity is dominated by dangerous fossil fuels; and despite much advertising to the contrary, so called "renewable energy" is neither sustainable nor significant. The expenditure of trillion dollar sums on solar and wind has had no other effect other than to make climate change accelerate.

Numbers don't lie.

Batteries are not sustainable either, because, like so called "renewable energy" their mass intensity is ridiculous; and even were it not, as a consequence of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, waste energy. The 2nd law of thermodynamics is not subject to repeal by advertising.

The idea that electric cars are "green," is absurd in the extreme. Electricity is already a thermodynamically degraded form of energy; the use of batteries degrades it further.

It has been shown that on my grid, the PJM grid, electric cars have a higher carbon impact than hybrid cars, which is not to say that hybrid cars - for full transparency I own one - are sustainable either. They are not.

I had a brief post on this here:

A paper addressing the idea that electric cars are "green."