By Mark Mills

From materials and batteries to manufacturing, calculating the real carbon cost of EVs is just getting started

Investors and politicians embracing a vision of an all-electric car future believe that path will significantly reduce global carbon dioxide emissions. That’s far from clear.

A growing body of research points to the likelihood that widespread replacement of conventional cars with EVs would likely have a relatively small impact on global emissions. And it’s even possible that the outcome would increase emissions.

Mark Mills is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.” He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and a member of the CO2 Coalition.

This article appeared on the TechCrunch website at https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/22/the-tough-calculus-of-emissions-and-the-future-of-evs/