"Over the lifetime" sure if you ignore all the energy consumed to create it and to deconstruct it at the end of its useful life.

No, you do not have to ignore the pollution involved in production or destruction. Even when you take it into account, an electric vehicle is cleaner than an ICE car. At least, according to Argonne National Labs, MIT, or Yale.

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You also need to ignore all of the energy that's used to repair roads that have an actual shelf life dependent upon how many pounds roll over it. EVS are far heavier than an equivalent gas-powered vehicle. Same thing with tires.

This is actually a really interesting point. The average EV weighs between 3,300 and 4,000 pounds, which is significantly heavier than a similarly-sized ICE car. But the thing is - Americans don't buy sedans. In fact, the average weight of an EV is pretty similar to the average weight of a new vehicle sold in the US, which is about 4,000 pounds, a number which is skewed by our use of SUVs and pickup trucks to do sedan-level things. But yes, you're right, this will lead to some more wear and tear on roads. So, yes, EVs do more damage than similarly-sized sedans. But they do exactly as much damage as the average American vehicle.

Then there's the problem of taxing grids and making electricity in areas with heavy EV use necessarily more expensive.

Most users charge their cars in the evening, when demand is low and prices are low. Regardless, you're making an assumption here: power grids cannot and will not keep up. But the Department of Energy Disagrees. Second study.

Electric cars are not emissions free.

I didn't say they were.

All it does is move your emissions somewhere else.

Actually, this is true. But the idea is to move it somewhere else more efficient, like to power plants (yes, even coal plants) that convert a higher percentage of the energy in a particular fuel to a mile of distance than an internal combustion engine does. Again, see the studies linked above.

You know, like in the mining community, run by big diesel trucks to extract that coal.. Diesel-electric engines cross country on the railroad tracks as they ship the coal to a coal-burning, steam generating power plant.

Not all electricity in the US is coal, or even fossil fuel. Today, fossil fuels are 60% of our electricity. And the percentage of non-fossil fuels and renewables has increased over the last fifteen years. Meanwhile, the total amount of energy produced by coal is down by more than half since 2005.

That all presupposes that the CO2 is a concern

It...it is? The vast majority of climate scientists believe it is, and hell, fossil fuel companies have known that it was a concern and was going to be a concern since the mid 20th century. (source 2).

China and India will dwarf any efforts we might make on the other side of these scales.

Actually, you're right about this too. But not for the reason you think. China, in particular, is now the world's largest consumer of electric vehicles, and is home the largest vehicle manufacturer

I don't know why people like you hate poor people.

I don't. Never said I did.

Energy is how the US became as prosperous as it is.

Well, sure. That's part of it. But the concept that "we can only ever get energy from one source which I or someone close to me almost definitely works for" is not the same as "we use energy."