Electric cars may run on clean, green electricity – but purchasing millions of EVs to replace our fossil-fuelled vehicles means overseas factories will pour out greenhouse gas.
Although they produce just one-third the lifetime emissions of a petrol car, electric vehicles aren’t completely clean. Carbon is created in the mining, manufacturing, shipping and recycling of the parts that make up every vehicle.
The Climate Change Commission has proposed a host of policies, from feebates to bulk EV orders, to boost the number of electric cars in the country.
But to reduce the world’s carbon output, environmentalists want the car to become the transport mode of last resort, with people instead choosing trains, buses, ferries, scooters, bikes or their feet for most journeys.
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