{"id":45672,"date":"2022-05-17T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45672"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:54:14","slug":"a-different-take-on-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45672","title":{"rendered":"A Different Take On Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Western Journal<\/a> posted an article about some recent changes in electric cars to increase their range.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

(Here at The Western Journal, we\u2019re making sure consumers know that electric cars don\u2019t just run on rainbows and dreams; there are serious environmental tradeoffs<\/a> politicians and environmentalists haven\u2019t fully publicized, or even considered, as they push these vehicles relentlessly on American car-buyers. We\u2019ll keep bringing America the truth the establishment media won\u2019t. You can help us by subscribing<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a piece published Monday by the EV-centric outlet Green Car Reports<\/a>, a British-based independent emissions testing firm found that particulate matter emissions from tires are 1,850 times greater under normal driving conditions than from a tailpipe of a gas-powered car.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s website<\/a>, particulate emissions are \u201cmicroscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can be inhaled and cause serious health problems.\u201d It notes the particles \u201care also the main cause of reduced visibility (haze) in parts of the United States, including many of our treasured national parks and wilderness areas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EPA<\/a> defines particle pollution as \u201cinhalable particles,\u201d which are under 10 microns in diameter, and \u201cfine inhalable particles,\u201d 2.5 microns and smaller.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The firm that conducted the study, Emissions Analytics, had previously found in 2020 that particulate emissions from tires could be 1,000 times greater than those from tailpipes. That test was designed to capture worst-case emissions under legal driving, according to the report. But when researchers replicated the test \u201cacross a wider range of driving conditions,\u201d they found the number was even higher.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the cars are becoming more efficient and larger batteries added however, the tire emissions increase.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Furthermore, they found that adding half a metric ton (1,100 pounds) \u201cof battery weight can result in tire emissions that are almost 400 more times greater than real-world tailpipe emissions, everything else being equal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the environmental damage caused by mining the minerals<\/a> needed to build EV components. Or the fact that China controls most<\/a> of the supply-chain access to said minerals. Or that EVs are considerably more expensive<\/a> than gas-powered vehicles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pick your poison. Heaven knows there are plenty of them. We\u2019ve found a new one in electric vehicles. It\u2019s time the progressive left at least admits the truth: There is no such thing as a free lunch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are in search of the perpetual motion machine. At some point we may actually come close, but the laws of physics are definitely working against us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Western Journal posted an article about some recent changes in electric cars to increase their range. The article reports: (Here at The Western Journal, we\u2019re making sure consumers know that electric cars don\u2019t just run on rainbows … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10008,15300,11597,15299,11827],"class_list":["post-45672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-electric-cars","tag-emissions-analytics","tag-environmental-protection-agency-epa","tag-particulate-matter-emissions","tag-the-western-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45673,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45672\/revisions\/45673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}