evidence: "Electric vehicles are better for the environment. Full stop," Austin Brown, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office, told us in a phone interview. "There are tons of complexity underneath that, but … in every metric that we use to measure environmental impact, that we know how to really quantify, electric vehicles are better for the environment now, and they will continue to improve." [...] But more to the point, requiring "more rock to be mined" doesn’t mean that EVs are worse for the environment, David Manley, lead economic analyst at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a nonprofit that works with several countries on managing natural resources and sustainable development, told us in an email. The post uses "false reasoning," he said, because it ignores the environmental costs of fossil fuel extraction. [...] Ritchie, Hannah. "Electric cars are better for the climate than petrol or diesel." Sustainability by numbers. 26 Jan 2023.