Total USA EV Adoption Will Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Only 2.5 %
Total USA EV Adoption Will Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Only 2.5 %
Base data presented by the US EPA and others is self contradictory in their promotion of EVs as a solution to global warming
Replacing roughly 260 million USA internal combustion engine passenger and light trucks with EVs will only slightly reduce global “greenhouse gases”. This is because they only contribute about 2.5 % to the total of man-made global greenhouse gases. Further, the entire EV battery supply chain feeds off the destructive mining, extraction and refinement minerals and materials. EVs and their manufacture is achieved by high intensity burning of coal in China.
The data presented by the government entities greatly promotes EVs as an important solution for global greenhouse gas emissions as CO2, and presents data to the contrary. It is quite easy to show using elementary grade school math that the data they share promoting EV adoption will contribute only a small fraction towards reducing greenhouse gases.
Data from EPA contradicts EPA claims that EVs are a solution to global warming
Tricky, tricky: EPA and other agencies lump light passenger vehicles and light trucks into the total transportation sector which also includes, trains, planes, sea vessels, etc
Globally: what % does the USA car and light trucks contribute to GGEs (as CO2)? Answer: 2.5 %
Cars and light trucks primarily give off CO2, so we can compare USA car and light truck emissions from EPA to EPA/DOE global EPA CO2 emissions data
Per EPA, USA in total contributes roughly 15 % of total world GGEs as CO2 from burning fossil fuels
From EPA, about 15 % of USA GGEs are from car and light trucks (not 27 %)
15 % of 15 % is: (0.15*0.15)*100 = so 2.5 % car and light trucks in the USA contribute to the 100 % of global GGEs.
Conclusions
USA cars and light trucks produce about 2.5 % of the USA greenhouse gases. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas product from fossil fuel combustion.
Forcing people to adopt EVs will make little difference in total greenhouse emissions in the USA because they contribute a small fraction. EVs require the burning of fossil fuels to manufacture, charge, and dispose of, and their manufacture is environmentally unfavorable.
Forcing people to adopt EVs is misguided because a) most people cannot afford EVs and are 60 % of Americans are paycheck to paycheck, i.e, EVs are a luxury item. B) the environmental destruction caused by EV manufacture outweighs benefits, and c), we should focus on the other 85 % of emissions first.