Quote Originally Posted by 318is-joe View Post
aside form the fact the carbon footprint of just making an e-vehicle exceed running a diesel for it's typical lifetime.
Therin lies a big issue - mulltiple journalists investigting same have been stonewalled by the manufacturers. What is the end-to-end CO2 output from an electric vehicle ?

What is the carbon footprint from mining the lithium/other elements from the ground that go into e-car batteries, coupled with the manufacturing/assembly process ? Nobody truely knows and the vehicle manufacturers are certainly not going to/probably never will divulge this info.....