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thegreencarwebsite.co.uk 05 Oct '12, 3pm

Electric cars “more environmentally intensive” than petrol and diesel vehicles: They have been designed and deve...

They have been designed and developed as a greener transport alternative, but a new study claims electric cars are a bigger environmental burden than conventional petrol and diesel cars. There’s no question once it’s on the road, a Nissan LEAF is greener than say, a VW Golf, but the criticism surrounds how the vehicle itself is produced. The study, published by the Norwegian University of Science , claims that electric car factories emit more toxic waste than conventional car factories. Production of EVs is “more environmentally intensive” in nearly all impact categories when compared to how vehicles driven by Internal Combustion Engines are produced. It says the potential for global warming was roughly doubled when producing EVs compared to regular petrol and diesel cars. Electricity production The report also takes issue with electricity production methods saying that gr...

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