A brief review of talking points against electric cars

I predict that nearly all cars sold in 50 years are going to be electric.

Just like some people still drive a horse and buggy, there will be people who still drive gas cars. But electric cars are the future.

However, many people don’t like electric cars currently. They usually have the same talking points.

Talking points against electric cars include:

• Electric car batteries need rare metals.
• Making electric cars creates more emissions.
• They are only as green as their power sources.
• Electric cars can be expensive to buy.
• You can’t drive as far in an electric car.
• There aren’t enough charging points.

Let’s deal with each one.

Rare metals — Once mined they can be recycled. So mine once use a lot of times. Or like fossil fuels, mine once and burn away never to be used again.

Making electric cars creates more emissions — more than what? The majority of a gas cars emissions occurs during the driving, so even if there are more emissions creating an electric car, over the life time the electric car emits fewer.