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Ignoring the fact that there are no renewable energy-powered EV factories, there are also plenty of industrial processes that inherently emit CO2. Steel manufacture first comes to mind.

By your same argument, I could say that there's no inherent CO2 emission required to manufacture petrol (as in, there theoretically is a way to do it).

>The anti-EV argument is deliberate confusion of the former with the latter.

I'm not confused about the distinction between the two. The pro-EV crowd seem happy to ignore the former, as long as it's far away, or could be solved by some as yet unimplemented technology.

[pfdietz]

Steel manufacture does not inherently emit CO2. The current CO2 emission is overwhelmingly from reduction of iron ore to iron metal with coke, but this can be replaced by reduction with hydrogen. Some carbon needs to then be added to the iron to make steel, but this is small compared to the carbon that was in coke, and is not an energy source and need not come from fossil fuels.

The pro-EV people are not ignoring the distinction here. Stop putting your lies in other peoples' mouths.