Charging toward net zero: The environmental factors electric vehicles don't fix
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The U.S. has ambitious goals to curb climate change in the coming decades—and electric vehicles feature heavily in that plan.
EV vehicles represent an immense leap in automotive industry capabilities made possible by computer chips and battery technology advancements, further nudged by government incentives. But research and current economic and environmental trends have laid bare that they’re by no means a silver bullet for alleviating climate change.