I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I’d like to share my thoughts here.

EVs do not really make cars sustainable. They just shift the polution from the cars themselves to some far-away coal or gas plant. But even if we got 100% renewable energy, they would still not be sustainable since their batteries are cancer to nature (do a search on the internet about lithium mining or cobalt mining).

So, how do I propose we solve the car question? Public transit is the answer.

Now, I won’t elaborate much on public transit since most urbanism Youtube channels can explain it way better than me (just don’t watch Azov Something, please), but I’d like to talk about the situation in Brazil.

Brazil is a place where we have a grid with almost 100% renewables (mainly hydrelectrics), so EVs would be nice here, wouldn’t they?

NO!!!

Here in Brazil we have also a huge sugarcane production, which goes to make ethanol (biofuel) and sugar. Ethanol is pretty based, sugar is not (I do agree that sugar is tasty though). So, since most cars in Brazil can run on any mixture of ethanol and gasoline thanks to their “flex” engines (yes, this is their real name), if the price of ethanol falls, no one will use gasoline, and then we get a carbon-neutral fleet of cars (which is still bad for the environment, but less so than going full gasoline). And since lots of sugarcane goes to make sugar, if we incentivize producers to produce ethanol instead, we can get more ethanol without having to clear more land for farming!

This concludes my rant on EVs.

edit: I do not like Trump at all. I just noticed that my post makes it seem like I agree with him, but I do not. In fact, he likes internal combustion engines and big oil, which is why he said that EVs are “madness”. I do not agree with that. I just think that EVs are the new “technology that will save the world” trend and that they won’t really save the world. It is imperative that we progress into socialism, or else we will be destined to fall to barbarism.

  • queermunist she/her
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    10 months ago

    Private car ownership should be abolished, neither ethanol nor electric are even carbon neutral. How much carbon is emitted manufacturing the car itself? How much is emitted maintaining the absurd amount of infrastructure needed to support cars? How much is emitted acquiring the resources to make components and batteries.

    It’s all a fucking lie! Carbon neutrality is a myth made up by the car industry to trick people into thinking they can have their cake and eat it too.

    And as long as we invest more into cars, the necessary public transportation infrastructure isn’t getting built.