how green are electric cars?

What do you know about how 'green' electric vehicles are?

Would it be 'greener' to drive your old banger?

Yes: Geoff Buys Cars - YouTube

... successive scrappage schemes, launched during the 2008 financial crash and repeated several times since, spelled doom for many healthy, cheap cars because they were worth more dead than alive. ‘It was a scandal,’ he said. The death of old bangers | The Spectator

Measuring carbon footprints: old bangers vs new electric cars - Vision Group for Sidmouth

No: Is Keeping Your Old Car Better For The Environment? - YouTube

Maybe: What's the carbon footprint of ... a new car? | Environment | The Guardian

Futures Forum: VW... and making 'wholly opaque disposable vehicles' >>> rather than making vehicles which 'run for a long time and are easy to fix'

What are the issues here?

How green are electric cars? | It's Complicated - YouTube

Here's the latest: How 'green' are electric vehicles? - Vision Group for Sidmouth

Follow the money:

Heartland Institute, which has received almost $800,000 from oil major ExxonMobil, according to the oil giant’s corporate donation disclosures, published an article last year saying “EV buyers should be aware that they may be contributing to the pursuit of “blood minerals” to achieve their efforts to go green. Why your electric car may not be as green as you think, from batteries to production

Is it Ethical to Purchase a Lithium Battery Powered EV? – The Heartland Institute

Lithium's in the news: Lithium - Google Search

With a report from Amnesty International: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries

And news from Cornwall: How lithium reserves in Cornwall could fuel green industrial revolution - YouTube

Finally: Cleaning up the Clean Energy Transition: Lithium Mining's Environmental Challenges - YouTube

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