Lomborg: 'electric cars require large batteries, often produced in China using coal power. Just producing the battery for an electric car can emit almost as much as a quarter of the greenhouse gasses emitted from a petrol car across its entire lifetime. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/dont-expect-electric-cars-save-planet/
Don’t expect electric cars to save the planet

Banning petrol and diesel vehicles would deliver only minor emissions savings at a vast cost to the taxpayer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/dont-expect-electric-cars-save-planet/
2/3 Lomborg; 'Second, the electric car is recharged on electricity that almost everywhere is significantly fossil-fuel based. Together, this means that a long-range electric car will emit more CO2 for its first 60,000km than a petrol car'
3/3 'we need to focus on the big emitters & drive innovation to create better low-CO2 energy from fusion, fission, geothermal, wind & solar. Innovations that will make just 1 of them cheaper than fossil fuels would mean everyone switching energy consumption toward zero emissions.
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