Should Electric Vehicles be Banned?

[Crazy Dazz]

It just shows the stupidity of many "Greenies" that they tout Electric Vehicles as being clean and good for the environment.

Two things to consider:

I work in the Mining Industry and have done for a good while now. Yes, Lithium is all the rage, and new projects are sprouting like weeds?
But why now? Ok so demand has risen exponentially, but why weren't these projects viable before? It's because most of these deposit are extremely low concentration, the Lithium Ore is extremely hard and expensive to grind, and very expensive to process.
So, bottom line, its an extremely "dirty" and energy consuming mineral to mine and process.

Now on to the Vehicles themselves.
EV's (including plug-in hybrids) are most heavily pushed in countries that rely on Nuclear Power.
Think about that for a minute.
Only a few years ago, mention of the word "Nuclear" or "Uranium" would have the Greenies foaming at the mouth and trying to bite you in the neck. Indeed they were chaining themselves to bulldozers around the globe.
Olympic Dam is so contaminated, you have to sign a waiver to work there. Nope, I both like my testicles, and want to limit the number to 2.
Plus of course, this is where the NIMBY factor goes ballistic.
Of course the nouveau-hippies (and there's a few in here) will prattle on about Solar Cells. Fantastic, if you're prepared to pay (without subsidy) to blanket your home in solar cells, and go completely off-grid, then have at. Unfortunately that will mean living so far out of the city, that your EV will be useless.
The Bottom line, in Australia (and most countries) is that an Electric Vehicle is effectively being run on Brown Coal. The dirtiest, filthiest, most polluting power source available. Yes, mixed in there is Solar, Wind, and Natural Gas, but that's not how it works. Obviously we prioritise clean power, and switch off the filthy stuff when and if we can. The problem is that not only are we several decades away from that, but the more we lower demand for Coal, the cheaper and more attractive it becomes. Also keep in mind that most countries in the world can't afford to be as prissy as us, so that will keep on burning coal as long as it remains cheap.

Even in a best case scenario, your EV is running on Natural Gas. So why not just save expense, inconvenience, and Lithium, and simply convert your car to gas?

So once again, just like "recycling", EV's just serve to make the Millennials feel good, whilst shifting the problem somewhere else.
In the case of a very densely populated metropolis, there is probably some benefit in shifting emissions, but the overall effect is a negative.