Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

29 Jan 2023 | Abstracted from IEEE Spectrum

"Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency

"U.S. must have 90 percent of its vehicles, or some 350 million EVs, on the road by 2050 in order to hit its emission targets. The likelihood of this occurring is infinitesimal.

"...40 percent of vehicles on US roads will be ICE vehicles in 2050."

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