Their batteries hurt the environment, but EVs still beat gas cars. Here's why

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/ [login to see] /ev-batteries-environmental-impact
"The results were clearer than we thought, actually," says Georg Bieker, with the International Council on Clean Transportation, who authored one of those reports. (This is the group that busted Volkswagen for cheating on its emissions tests. Holding industries accountable for whether they're actually reducing emissions is the ICCT's whole thing.).