The FUD campaign against EVs is alive and well and being driven by those with interests in ongoing fossil fuel use.
This campaign has been initiated to bring some truth and balance t the debate. Sodium ion batteries are already finding their way into EV production (e.g. BYD Seagull) and LiFePO4 battery tech is displacing that with cobalt dependance. Go back 100+ years and similar criticisms will have been levelled at the coming ICEVs but technology soon solved those problems and it will again as EVs become the mainstream personal mobility method.
The book I linked to above also covers off most of the criticisms being made about EVs, and the sustainability of most everyday products we have come to rely on. It's worth a read.
Also worth noting that the major conflicts we're seeing currently are in regions that oil supplies come from (as is so often the case) so for a country like NZ the independence from fossil fuels that electrification of our vehicle fleet offers is a great move in terms of energy resilience.
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