Thank you to whoever posted this. I'm just starting a new job as Product manager and this seems like a decent roadmap. I just finished my first 30 days and it looked fairly similar to what's written here so it seems like I'm off to a good start.
Paywalled, so cannot read the article but as this is an "opinion piece" I suspect it's more gaslighting. The fact remains that while EV's are not 100% perfect in every conceivable way, they do improve upon ICE vehicles in virtually every way. Major issues regarding supply chain of batteries are improving with new battery technology like cobalt-free LFP chemistry. The battery recycling and "second life" battery industry is gradually maturing and technologies like Smart Charging and V2G promise to have a major impact helping to modernize the electrical grid as well as improve the conditions for more renewable energy by matching charging times to variable availability of green energy.
Reader mode on the article reveals the content. Your answer is on point though. WSJ a few months published a piece saying that electric cars have to run 20k miles before they take over ICE vehicles in emissions(less that is). This piece is just scaremongering though. It keeps on repeating in several ways that making electric vehicles is energy intensive
Which is also kind of funny, considering I know people who’ve bought electric cars new and used- they’ve all surpassed 20k miles at a year and a half- two years. Most gas powered cars go well beyond 20k miles, and that would easily and dramatically increase their emissions.
Yeah, not to mention electric cars are going to be made with even less energy like cold pressing the entire chassis from a sheet of metal, higher density batteries and recycling older batteries, where as gas cars have been the same in terms of mpg.
