I’m surprised you haven’t heard the opposite. It’s wrong, but a really common talking point for a while was buying an EV wasn’t actually good because of the pollution involved in manufacturing the car. Then a few years later they updated the rhetoric to talk about the minerals mined for batteries. I assume it was pushed by Fossil Fuel companies.
This The Guardian article mentions the minerals one. You can see an example of The Daily Telegraph pushing the myths with the headline: “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery.”
I’m surprised you haven’t heard the opposite. It’s wrong, but a really common talking point for a while was buying an EV wasn’t actually good because of the pollution involved in manufacturing the car. Then a few years later they updated the rhetoric to talk about the minerals mined for batteries. I assume it was pushed by Fossil Fuel companies.
This The Guardian article mentions the minerals one. You can see an example of The Daily Telegraph pushing the myths with the headline: “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery.”