Idea that electric cars might produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles ‘essentially a myth’

Mongabay
Mar 25, 2020, 5:33 pm604 ptsHot
Electric cars are intended to help mitigate the climate impacts of the transportation sector, which is responsible for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But since electric vehicles, in most cases, are powered by an energy grid still reliant to some degree on fossil fuels, there are concerns that…

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