When will a Electric Truck *actually* become "Green"?

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Zack's last point is the most important. If you want to really reduce emissions, use the right tool for each task. Pickup truck when you need to haul heavy loads, bike or e-bike when you're going less than a mile, walk when you're going less than half a mile. No sense using a 7,000 pound truck just to pick up a gallon of milk from the corner store.

One argument you don't hear much is the amount of effort it takes to get petrol to the pump. There's the intial extraction, delivery to refinery, refining process, delivery to central storage, from there to petrol station and finally into your car. All along this process a lot of electricity and diesel is being being burned before it even gets to your car. Then your car starts putting out Co2.

So good to see a video on EV tech where you actually think very deeply about the WHOLE process and not just the tail pipe.

I agree on the bullet trains comment! After riding a few bullet trains in Spain, they were so incredibly efficient & fun to ride in! I wish the U.S. had a better public mass transportation system like that .

As usual, well done sir. On the recycling front I’d call out American Manganese and Li-Cycle too. I’ve visited Li-Cycle’s hub plant in my hometown of Rochester, NY (in an old Kodak building). The amount they can already process is impressive and it’s scaling up fast.

So fascinating. Great research. Bullet train please.

honest appraisal without bias...rare indeed

Love all your videos. The factual content the research and the presentation make it worth the watching.

jerry's not being gentle with this one, cracked the windshield already!? awesome video bro, lookin forward to the next one

Excellent and well researched video. Thank you for putting this out. It was a really fair, nuanced assessment of the ICE vs. Electric debate. Looking forward to your bullet train video! I would love a high speed rail system in the US.

Thanks for taking the time and making a video about this in your style!

Zack, I really want to thank you for this video. Since the birth of EVs, there was always this daoubt in my head. How green are green technologies applied to vehicles. Since the mining, transporting, manufacturing, recharging and pollution from batteries heavy metals and acid? and whatnot. BTW, that series of videos of your electric humvee is top notch! I just loved them. I know it required too much work, resources and probably sleepless nights, but you came through all obstacles. Cheers from Mexico.

Thank you for acknowledging public transport and high speed railways like bullet trains. They are truly currently the most efficient of transportation. Teslas in Tunnels things is just a glorified distraction from real public transport.

To me most people that don't want EVs always come up with the excuse of "It's going to cost $20k when you have to replace the battery pack". But I don't think they know how long the battery packs will last if taken basic care. I guess they feel like they're the same as any other battery that you replace every 3-4 years. Most likely if you drive your EV long enough that it literally disintegrates you're most likely to be left sitting on the battery pack that still works. I just feel it's very odd to argue like that

I would love to see updated numbers factoring in towing, ideally residential boat/RV towing. So far that has been my biggest hold up switching to an EV truck vs gas. Our average weekly towing range would be 30-40 miles, however we regularly tow 100-200 miles at a time.

Now throw a hybrid truck into the mix which I believe is a more responsible transition to full ev’s while we tackle infrastructure issues

If I remember it correctly Kurzgesagt showed a fact once that was that producing an entire electric vehicle emits as much as laying 2 meter road (I think 2+2 lane). So while we can electrify our vehicles as much as we want, we must also examine new ways of creating the infrastructure to use those vehicles.

I absolutely agree about bullet trains. Public transportation isn't big enough here in the US as it should be, especially for longer distance travel. Being able to take the train in the Bay Area to travel between multiple cities is great. They are working on making all electric trains which I'm excited for but won't be out for a few years.

Interesting video! Thank you! Want to mention that after melting the metal, you won't have the same amount of metal because it burns a bit of it while melting, so there won't be a real endless circle of recycling.