Bjorn Lomborg, an environmental economist and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center has some pretty harsh criticism to make against electric vehicles (EVs). But is he correct?
Here are a few of the points Lomborg makes against electric vehicles:
- Coal-burning power plants generate the electricity used to charge them.
- Coal is more polluting than gasoline.
- Lithium mining for the batteries is environmentally harmful.
- More CO2 is emitted when manufacturing an EV than a conventional vehicle.
Those are fairly valid points of critique, but if you're looking at your Prius right now with