The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general
It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.
And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist
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Why tech companies are wrong to think electric cars are a solution to climate change
To fight climate change, carmakers want to sell us ever more technological and ecological vehicles. For Paris Marx, this approach is wrong.Thomas Duthois (Euronews.com)