Independent of tires, lithium extraction is an environmental nightmare of its own, AFAIK, and if I’m remembering right, all of the fossil fuels used in producing a car make up a full half of the amount of CO2 it’s responsible for across its lifetime. Electric cars are PART of a solution, and a small one at that.

I’m steel on steel baby

We all agree that cars themselves are a problem, but let me bang the drum a little on remote work because holy crap is that an easy way to greatly reduce car trips.

I happened to take a hybrid job (3 days remote/2 days in office) not long after losing a car to a deer, and let me tell you, despite living in exactly the kind of rural area that cars will always be a requirement to live in, having a hybrid job allowed my family to switch to being a single car family. It took a whole friggin car off the road!

If one can incentivize hybrid and remote work for all jobs that can be performed hybrid/remotely at a national level (take your pick on the nation too!) that would be a very low cost (if not increasing revenue for governments through fines and/or savings) way to greatly reduce how many car trips/miles are driven by car everywhere! That’s great for the environment, that’s great for traffic, that’s great for road maintenance, that’s great for workers, and its great for businesses!

Are those particles greenhouse gasses?

Yeah, and if we replace every non-electric car with a electric car…you realize that producing an electric car is polluting!