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Originally Posted by hunter12
GM is bringing back the Hummer. It is all electric but something that massive surely can't be that environmentally friendly.
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The whole "zero emission" myth of electric vehicles isn't necessarily environmental friendly. Whether it is a power assisted bicycle that does 30 km/m, a Tesla Model 3, a Tesla Roadster, a Tesla CyberTruck, a Tesla Semi, a GMC Hummer, one of the electric NewFlyer buses or any of the other electric vehicles on the road they all suffer from the same issue on being "environmental friendly" in that the emissions come out of a power plant smoke stack than the tail pipe on the vehicle. It is more emissions shifting that emissions elimination like electric vehicle companies and owners like to claim.
And no, hydro is not considered to be environmental friendly due to the massive amounts of flooding it intentionally causes upstream for the generation station.
As for the new electric GMC Hummer, is it no better or worse for the environment than anything Tesla is pumping out. For both the big challenge is what happens with the batteries at end of life.