The thing being with the 'Zero Emission' moniker is that this is the term Government uses for them, not just car maker marketing. The BBC backs this falsehood up, saying "While electric vehicles (EVs) may not emit any carbon dioxide during their working lives..."[XAP]Bob wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 9:22am
3) Marketing is always bull - they are basically zero point emissions (in that they don't emit where they travel), though they do wear (i.e. lose some tyre mass).
Yes, we need a better understanding of embedded energy costs, but since we have the fossil fuel industry dictating government policy at the moment I have no hope at all.
And there is a huge push towards designing batteries (in particular) which are easier to pull apart for recycling.
There will be a huge push to work out how best to recycle, at present while we recycle almost all traditional 'lead acid' types, "Currently, globally, it's very hard to get detailed figures for what percentage of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the value everyone quotes is about 5%," says Dr Anderson. "In some parts of the world it's considerably less."
Both quotes from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56574779