Mr Toyoda is absolutely correct! The only reason for the EV push by American manufacturing is that there is a much higher profit margin in EVs than ICE as manufacturing an EV requires much less labor and materials. Being an electrical engineer I did the math behind EVs. Currently most electricity is made by burning natural gas and a lot more by coal to fill in the shortfall of alternative energy. So, if you do the calculations of burning fossil fuel to create steam, to spin a turbine, to run a generator, to deliver the electricity hundreds of miles, to convert the electricity to something the EVs batteries can accept, to store the energy in the EVs batteries, to convert the chemical energy in the EVs batteries to electricity, to regulate the electricity to be able to modulate the EVs motors. There needs to be 50 times more fossil fuel burned to move that EV one mile down the road than a comparable ICE vehicle. How does this make the EVs carbon free??
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