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I'm Ayesha Rascoe in for Marielle Seguera.
Have you thought about getting an electric vehicle?
Lots of people have.
According to autodata giant JD Power, EV consideration recently hit an all time high.
And as EV's go from early adopters to the mainstream, as it's not just EV obsessives, but, you know, well, just anybody looking at getting an EV, people have lots of questions, including questions about the environmental footprint of EV's to help them decide if they should get an EV, and then practical questions about charging and buying them to help them decide if they can get an EV.
Here at life Kit, we love nothing better than unpacking the how and the why of decisions like this.
So we've partnered with the folks from NPR's the Sunday Story.
We asked listeners to send in their questions about electric vehicles, and the response was overwhelming.
So to answer all these questions, I'll talk with NPR's business correspondent Camila Dominosky, who covers cars and energy.
She's found answers for all these EV questions.
So when it comes to electric vehicles, I think there are a lot of questions about are they the solution to climate change?
The number one question sounded something like this.
What is the environmental impact of making.
All of these batteries for electric vehicles?
My questions are about the carbon footprint cost of the whole electric vehicle industry.
Is the lithium even better for the environment, or is it partly worse?
How environmentally friendly are electric vehicles at this point?
Yeah.
I was honestly surprised by how many questions we got along this line.