Particulate emissions have been dropping already since decades through optimizations. Electric cars certainly reduce particulate emissions a lot further, but tire and break wear has become a significant part of particulate emissions.

The best really would be to keep cars out of highly populated areas and provide good public transportation and provide walkable and bicycle-safe infrastructure.

I just spent a few days in Cairo. The air there was a good reminder of how bad the air can be with less stringent emission regulations. I can’t wait for the day when all cars are electric. There are other problems with cars in general but cities will become way nicer once ICE cars are gone.

What would also be ideal is that people use smaller, lighter vehicles, slower too, but max speeds should be regulated anyway. Electric energy really shines for light vehicles, not really in the Tesla trend (2T with 500kg batteries). It doesn't make a lot of sense to travel alone in 2Tonnes personal vehicles, for an average travel of a few kilometers, mostly in city

Electric cars are great and all, but there's a few things that keep me from buying one (so far).

First, there's the price. I know that some countries subsidize the purchase of an EV but without such support, electric cars are still targetting the upper end of the market when compared to traditional cars of the same size and with comparable features. Added to this is a latent feeling of mine that an electric car might lose value even faster than traditional cars already do. I mean, we all know from experience with battery powered devices (of the hand-held kind), how batteries deteriorate over time, and I think this impression is inevitably associated with electric cars, too, whether it's actually relevant in practice or not.

Second, but perhaps equally important, is that I currenly live in Europe. And unlike what you may be used to from suburban North America, I neither have a driveway here nor does my house come with an underground parking garage for its tenants. I park on the road. Sometimes quite a distance away from my house. So, charging over night is out of the question - which means that the only option for charging would be at the equivalence of a traditional gas station. Except, short of any super charger infrastructure in my vicinity, I have a hard time imagining spending 30 minutes every time the car runs empty. I have a larger family, and although 30 minutes might not seem much to you, it's definitely a considerable amount of time to me.

I realize there are quite a bit of advantages to EVs, and I would really love to enjoy them. But I just feel that these two points alone are sort of a deal breaker at the moment. I hope things are going to get better, though.

Just the reduction in noise and air pollution is more than enough to justify banning new ICE cars. Anyone who lives anywhere near a big highway knows what I'm talking about. For instance: When a car shakes your windows because some jerk thinks it's okay to turn his car into a fog horn.

What are the effects of the mining, reconditioning and disposing of battery minerals? I ride a bicycle, so the effects of that are easy to imagine, some steel, some rubber, etc. But in wanting an electric car, I get stopped by the worry about children and the disadvantaged being the ones mining these resources at their own peril, and 20 years from now being the ones shipped our recycled batteries.

The reduction in CO2 emission resulting from EV's is definitely a win for the environment. What I didn't see from the article or its linked report was anything surrounding the effects of increased battery waste resulting from popularizing EV's.

An electric truck can cover a lot less ground with a full battery charge than a diesel truck with a full tank am I right? What happens to the price of essential goods like food and medicine since the cost of transportation to poorer areas? Does it prevents more deaths or does it exacerbates issues like infant mortality on poor areas?

Weird headline.

Obligatory all models are wrong