MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 13, 2022
Martin Crosby’s Nov. 6 letter (“Letter to the editor: EV battery production is hard on the environment”) asked important questions about the metals required for battery production. Unfortunately, they were leading questions designed to make readers anti-electric vehicle. we don’t have time to wait until all EV technologies are perfect to begin the transition. We need electrified transportation now to immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support the build-out of charging infrastructure. In five years, the EVs we can make will be more environmentally friendly and “range anxiety” will be gone if we have enough chargers. But we have to move forward with what we have now. ~ Daniel Smith, Yarmouth