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Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S
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The problem is that your stance is needlessly binary. Just because they were intended to "save the auto industry" doesn't mean that they're not also better for the environment.
The narrative that the manufacturing of EV's is just as bad as the pollution from ICE vehicles has long been debunked and even if you're charging from home via the grid, that doesn't mean it's environmentally bad, the push towards renewable energy production is ongoing.
The US is vastly behind the times but that's not the fault of EVs. Take the UK for example, which is producing more and more green energy. It stopped burning coal years ago and regularly runs almost entirely on pure renewables. That means EV's charging there are regularly being charged from renewables, even when pulling from the grid.