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According to Volvo, building an equivalent electric version of an internal combustion car causes 70% more carbon emissions. Replacing the 1.5 billion cars on the globe with electric cars alone will be a carbon disaster, as are the environmental impact of all those batteries which are not recycled. The solution is clearly not to keep doing the same, except electrically powered. Individually owned cars, whether internal combustion or battery electric are destroying our cities and have environmental impacts we can not afford. The article frames the issue as a choice between one or other car, but to have a future we need drastically improved public transportation and infrastructure for bicycles and ultra light low speed vehicles, while largely banning the monstrosities we currently use to get around.

According to Volvo, building an equivalent electric version of an internal combustion car causes 70% more carbon emissions. Replacing the 1.5 billion cars on the globe with electric cars alone will be a carbon disaster, as are the environmental impact of all those batteries which are not recycled. The solution is clearly not to keep doing the same, except electrically powered. Individually owned cars, whether internal combustion or battery electric are destroying our cities and have environmental impacts we can not afford. The article frames the issue as a choice between one or other car, but to have a future we need drastically improved public transportation and infrastructure for bicycles and ultra light low speed vehicles, while largely banning the monstrosities we currently use to get around.