Data from Ipsos shows the percentage of Americans who believe EVs are better for the environment than gas cars has dropped 5 points since 2022.
Tesla Superchargers stand in a parking lot in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 16. Electric vehicles have significant environmental advantages over similar gas-powered vehicles, but the percentage of Americans who believe so has gone down slightly over the last two years.
Journalists have done a lot of work explaining those environmental harms, and the public has noticed. That’s good news: Trancik, of MIT, says people should ask questions about the true environmental costs oftechnology. But the mountain of research determining that EVs are still cleaner than gasoline-powered cars doesn’t seem to have gotten as much traction.
Memes that exaggerate or distort the real harms of EVs — or that simply fail to compare them with the damage caused by gas cars —criticizing California’s EV mandate that included a statistic from a company called Emissions Analytics.
There’s a similar nugget of truth behind lots of the arguments that EVs aren’t green. Lots of electricity does come from fossil fuels. Batteries do require mining and, eventually, recycling., more recycling, more transit and walkable cities. They may support a case for plug-in hybrid vehicles; it depends how people use them.Will these distortions hold back EV adoption?
On the other hand, Ipsos’ data suggests that the people losing faith in EVs’ green credentials weren’t likely to consider buying EVs anyway.
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