IEEE is running an article in the IEEE Spectrum Magazine titled "Unclean
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> It is a critique of the environmental impact of electric cars. >
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> "London?s mayor, Boris Johnson, once breathlessly asserted that the all -
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> electric Tesla Roadster sports coupe produced ?no more noxious vapors
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> than a dandelion in an alpine meadow.? But Ozzie Zehner, a former plug- in
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> advocate, advises would-be EV cheerleaders to look beyond the missing >
> tailpipe. Zehner had built a plug-in of his own, then later reached the
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> conclusion that electrifying cars just trades one set of environmental >
> problems for another. Author of the book Green Illusions, Zehner says EVs
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> consider the environmental impacts over a vehicle?s entire life cycle,
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> from its construction through operation and on to its eventual retirement
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> at the junkyard."
It's Bush's idea to work on electric cars instead of more obvious choices. It must have been another money-dumping scheme of his.
The way to go --the simple way, the healthy way-- is to ride a bicycle. I m ay say the electric bicycle is the smart choice given the space to ride it far and wide.
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