A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.
Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??
There’s correlation, but it’s not causal. The reason is that EVs are just more expensive (and are really only a practical option if you have your own garage as well), so wealthier people tend to buy them.
”The researchers found that people who purchase EVs tend to be wealthier than average”
In other words: OP is barking up the wrong tree as the EVs have little to no correlation with the non-EV-related carbon footprint of the EV owners.
Unless, of course, if OP is implying that EVs are too hard to acquire for the less wealthy consumers, though I somehow doubt that.
There’s correlation, but it’s not causal. The reason is that EVs are just more expensive (and are really only a practical option if you have your own garage as well), so wealthier people tend to buy them.