I suspect not given some have argued that EV car have a higher carbon footprint that cars they replace
You should go back and re-examine those arguments. They haven’t been true for decades, if ever, and are usually not produced in good faith. It’s not even close, unless you exclusively charged your EV from the very least carbon efficient power plants in the world.
Cars should probably go to hybrid systems as they will be better.
If you mean serial hybrids/PHEVs, then I agree, this is something I expected to see a lot more of by now, but instead companies seem to want to jump straight to pure BEVs, which I think is likely to be a worse transition overall.
these days the bigger source of pollution (probably in suburban, and metro but not pure urban) was lawn mowers.
You may want to be more specific what you mean by “pollution” and “bigger.” Particulates and various fumes other than CO2 per gallon of fuel burned? Sure, makes sense. Anything about aggregate amounts? No. That may be true in some specific geographies, but is broadly false. I do agree that going electric is often a good idea, as long as your lot isn’t too big and you keep up with it. I had a battery electric mower and loved it, except that if I missed a week or two I would drain the batteries several times faster b/c of the taller grass. Ditto if the grass was at all damp. But it’s getting there.
You should go back and re-examine those arguments. They haven’t been true for decades, if ever, and are usually not produced in good faith. It’s not even close, unless you exclusively charged your EV from the very least carbon efficient power plants in the world.
If you mean serial hybrids/PHEVs, then I agree, this is something I expected to see a lot more of by now, but instead companies seem to want to jump straight to pure BEVs, which I think is likely to be a worse transition overall.
You may want to be more specific what you mean by “pollution” and “bigger.” Particulates and various fumes other than CO2 per gallon of fuel burned? Sure, makes sense. Anything about aggregate amounts? No. That may be true in some specific geographies, but is broadly false. I do agree that going electric is often a good idea, as long as your lot isn’t too big and you keep up with it. I had a battery electric mower and loved it, except that if I missed a week or two I would drain the batteries several times faster b/c of the taller grass. Ditto if the grass was at all damp. But it’s getting there.