Ebm
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For reference, can you give me an example of what car model this 6.2 gas engine is in?A Euro 6.2 gas engine in good working order is one of the least polluting man-made things. It produces mostly just carbon dioxide and water. Ironically, if you run it in a badly polluted place it will exhaust cleaner air than the one it breathes in.
On the other hand, an EV is an ecological disaster on wheels. The worldwide supply of lithium is limited, its extraction is one of the most polluting industries, its transportation across the globe is a polluting and energy-hungry affair, and the electricity used to charge the car comes mostly from burning coal and gas.
So if you want your kids to breathe fresh air, you should use a good, fairly new gas engine and encourage them to do the same.
But anyway, this wasn't about whether I agreed with the extinction of gas engines or not, but whether it will actually happen during our lifetime. And no, I don't think it will. EVs today are as far from fulfilling the needs of the masses as they were twenty years ago.
Yes, lithium extraction has its consequences. So does fracking. Fracking causes groundwater pollution and earthquakes. I wouldn't say lithium is any worse. Lithium gets a bad rap because people dispose of it the wrong way. You can't just take it to a landfill. You have to take it to a hazardous waste or battery recycling location.
I never said anything about gas engines going away in our lifetime. My statement you replied to was the V8 going away. Gasoline isn't the answer and neither is a fully electric vehicle(right now, this could change) since neither are renewable energy sources. Instead, gasoline will be forced out because of finite resources. A fully electric car will make it further because of 1 thing. You can make a battery with different materials. At some point we will find a better alternative to lithium that's also economical. This alternative will be what is in batteries in fully electric cars going forward.
Electricity in most places is still powered by coal and gas yes. But that's rapidly changing. There are several countries that are over halfway hydro, wind, solar, or a combination. It's a slow process to completely change over energy sources. It takes decades.
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