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They are marginally better than internal combustion engines and that's their only merit. If you're gonna have a car, it should be electric.
But yeah, electric cars are not only creating micro plastic pollution from tire shedding, they are also heavier and thus require more energy to move, as well as create more potholes.
Plus, they still require parking lots that worsens flooding and creates heat islands.
Worldwide, cars are also killing billions of animals every year, as well as around 2 million humans. Every 30 seconds someone dies injured by a car.
Making them electric will barely change anything.
No, electric motors are a lot more efficient, 90%+. Internal combustion are at 30% something. So EV, while about 10% heavier, are much more energy efficient. They just carry less energy.
Any more info on that? I found this but it's coming from an EV enthusiast site and I'd like other sources.
If true I'll have to retire this argument and focus only on the other half a dozen issues with cars, like using energy to move a multi ton vehicle and park it everywhere a few billion humans go.
Doing the math, an electric car uses 15 to 20 kWh/100 km.
Gasoline car uses about 7 liter/100 km. That's about 68 kWh.
That seems pretty straightforward with real-world numbers.