> producing them, providing the energy, and finally handling the waste at the end All of those produce environmental effects that for EVs are now: - local

> producing them, providing the energy, and finally handling the waste at the end All of those produce environmental effects that for EVs are now: - local instead of spread out - largely decoupled from the vehicle This is a huge architectural change because we're factoring environmental effects out of the vehicle, which allows for accelerated improvements without changing the car itself as well as economies of scale resulting in better environmental efficiency. Switch from coal to nuke and all currently running EVs stop emitting a lot of CO2 at once. Switch to wind+solar and they're suddenly all nuke-waste-free too. The same car could change to more recyclable battery tech (swappable batteries, battery rental...) over the course of its life and become progressively cleaner. So even if it provides an increase right now (which it doesn't, plus we're just living on a huge carbon credit card anyway) it certainly won't on the medium to long term.