Electric Cars Could Actually Create Worse Air Pollution Than Gas Cars, Study Finds

Electric cars have become a wildly contentious issue across the auto industry thanks in large part to incomprehensible mandates brought down by international politicians. 

The European Union, President Joe Biden and far left politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom have demanded auto makers transition rapidly to primarily producing electric cars, despite very low demand in the general public. These decisions, made ostensibly out of desire to reduce emissions and air pollution, naturally ignore the cost of EV's, the massive amounts of pollution generated by producing them and transporting components across the world, as well as the lack of sustainability from battery technology that rapidly degrades over time. Oh, and they also ignore that EV's may not even be better at reducing pollution than their gas counterparts anyway.

That conclusion is the result of a study conducted by independent research firm Emission Analytics, which found that brakes and tires on EV's release "1,850 times more particle pollution" than their gas counterparts. Because electric cars, thanks to their immensely heavy batteries, weigh so much more than gas cars, the increased wear on tires and brakes actually leads to significantly higher amounts of particulate pollution hitting the atmosphere. 

So while there may be a reduction in CO2 emissions, the increase in particulate pollution may be having harmful effects on the air we breathe. Makes perfect sense.

Electric vehicle owners connect to a charging station at the Target in Simi Valley on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

Politicians Committed To EV's While Ignoring Side Effects

Stunningly, a group of committed ideologues and politicians have attempted to commit the world to electric cars based on an incomplete understanding of their comprehensive impact on the planet and without thinking through the side impacts of transitioning to EV's. Who would have ever thought that shortsighted "experts" and activists would myopically focus on one thing at the expense of others? Not like we've ever seen that happen before.  

All of this also ignores that the massive surge of electricity generation required to charge these EV's; California's grid for example can barely handle existing demand, when 80-85% of the cars on the road are still gas powered.  

Charging issues, range degradation, inability to be used in cold weather; all of these valid concerns have led to the bottom falling out of the EV car market. To the point where thousands of dealerships have begged Biden to back off of his delusional mandates. 

READ: Nearly 4,000 Car Dealerships Ask Biden To Stop Electric Car Policies After Demand Collapses

As well as manufacturers stopping their plans to expand their EV lineups.

Now we learn that EV's may be even worse for air quality than modern gas cars. 

If you're expecting anything to change as a result of learning this information, you clearly haven't been paying attention to how politicians and their preferred "experts" have made decisions over the past few years. They decide what they want, and everyone else has to deal with it.