Are electric cars green?

It's true - electric vehicles do not emit greenhouse gases. Directly. Indirectly, they do more than combustion vehicles.

Get well or not? 

Large cities will be freed up after the complete replacement of internal combustion vehicles with electric ones. It would be quieter, and there would be much less poisonous substances. It seemed to be healthier. Are you sure? It turns out not in Poland.

Check out how it works in Poland 

In our country, a significant part of coal is used to generate electricity - this is the main raw material used for electricity generation. When carbon is burned, carbon dioxide is produced, just like the carbon dioxide emitted by cars that run on gasoline and oil. Because CO2 emissions depend on the amount of fuel used, oil cars produce fewer toxins than gasoline cars.

Is an electrician's battery worse than an entire combustion machine? 

Indeed, there are a lot of carbon dioxide emissions in the production of electric vehicles and batteries. The production of an electric vehicle battery alone is reported to contain 74% more carbon dioxide concentration than the production of an entire combustion vehicle.

Locally and globally 

Obviously, with the introduction of only electric vehicles, the local urban air will improve, but its general condition will deteriorate significantly. That's not the point, is it?

Forecasts 

In order for electric vehicles to become more and more popular, it is necessary to increase their range, and therefore, as many kilometers as possible for travel. To extend it, the battery capacity must increase. Do you know what it means. More battery capacity = more CO2 emissions.

Some data

The carbon dioxide produced by cars built in 2017 was 118 grams per kilometer. The 10-kilometer route was associated with 1 kg and 180 g of CO2 in the air, while the 100-kilometer route contained a whopping 12 kilometers of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A thousand kilometers? 120 kilograms of CO2 above us. The CO2 produced by electric vehicles does not come out of the tailpipes, but from the chimneys of the power plant.

What about this puzzle? 

Countries with access to clean energy that can be used for electric vehicles may be tempted to allocate more money for these vehicles, even - mostly! - for the sake of protecting the environment. In countries such as Poland or Germany, the purchase of an electric car is not associated with environmental benefits, on the contrary: the amounts allocated for electric vehicles are associated with a deterioration in the general climate of the country.