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Do Electric Cars Really Produce Fewer Carbon Emissions Than Petrol 0r Diesel Vehicles?

26 Dec 2023 | Abstracted from The Guardian

"Many claims about electric cars' supposedly worse environmental toll focus on manufacturing and ignore the actual use of the cars...The grain of truth in the criticism is that EVs do indeed take significantly more energy to manufacture. Analysis by the Argonne National Laboratory...suggests that manufacturing battery cars produces about 60% more carbon emissions than their fossil fuel...that "carbon debt" is paid off within about two years..."

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