I’ve been sort of skeptical of the real benefits of electric vehicles for some time. It seems to make sense that, if some states (California and Texas, I’m looking at you in particular!!) have recently been facing problems with demand on their electrical grids, it may not make sense to put additional strain on them by moving to electric cars. However, I listened to this Skeptoid episode today that, as they always do, gave a logical and fact-based explanation of the actual potential impact on the US electrical grid

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4852

Since we live in an area that’s often plagued with power outages, I found the vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home options particularly interesting.

There’s also this older episode that discusses how EVs are not as impactful to the environment as many would have us believe although there are caveats about the mining of natural elements necessary for the creation of batteries. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4844

At the end of the day, I’m still not completely ready to move to an EV with my next car but we clearly need to do away with fossil fuel powered vehicles sooner than later.