Thus both fuel production and consumption emit carbon. The exhaust from these vehicles also contains carbon dioxide and other toxic gases. The issue with these vehicles is not the engine – it’s the fuel.Ĭrude has to be mined and refined and these processes cause huge carbon emissions. The vast majority will still be ICE vehicles. It’s estimated that by 2030, only about 8% of the two billion or so vehicles on roads will be purely electric. Germany, however, has pushed for this legislation to be tweaked to allow the sale of cars running on carbon-neutral fuels. Indeed, the EU is considering legislation that would only allow the sale of zero-carbon-emission cars after 2035, and mandate drastic emissions cuts for vehicles sold from 2030-35. These need to be mined and refined and this has a big carbon impact.ĮVs are popular because they are zero-emission and low-maintenance and because legislation everywhere favours them. EVs use huge lithium-ion batteries and lots of rare earths. By some estimates, manufacturing EVs results in higher carbon emissions than making conventional ICE cars. There’s an environmental impact to manufacturing any vehicle, EV or ICE, since they all contain plastics and metals – including rare earths. Here’s the logic for the shift in R&D focus.
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