Electric Vehicles Won't Save Us

18 Oct 2022 | Abstracted from The Nation

"Sadly...manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual electric passenger cars [and trucks] won't get us far enough down the road to ending greenhouse-gas emissions...the coming global race to electrify the personal vehicle is likely to exacerbate ecological degradation...

"...to reduce their impact on humanity and Earth, America should aim to produce fewer and far smaller vehicles than are currently planned."

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