Photo Credit: Fair Use [17 U.S.C. § 107] Toyota CEO Ako Toyoda often offers a bipolar view of EVs.
The "EVs Are Big Polluters" Circus Is Back In Town
17 Jun 2025 | Abstracted from CleanTechnica
"...the anti-EV blogosphere went into overdrive... 'EV's cause three times more pollution than a hybrid cars! Akio Toyoda said so, which means it is true
"...for years, EV haters have been bleating about how electric cars will crash the grid. But the real threat to the electrical grid comes from data centers..
"...journal IOP Science... found that gas and hybrid vehicles create six to nine metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in their manufacturing while EVs create 11 to 14 metric tons of CO2 emissions during manufacturing."
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