The Study Says-Electric Car Supply Chain Carbon Emissions Lower Than ICE Vehicles

The study has found that the total indirect emissions from electric vehicles pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

Indirect emissions include those produced by the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to create the electricity that charges the vehicles. A researcher Stephanie Weber said, “The surprising element was how much lower the emissions of electric vehicles were. The supply chain for combustion vehicles is just so dirty that electric vehicles can’t surpass them, even when you factor in indirect emissions.”

According to a research team who combined concepts from energy economics and industrial ecology – carbon pricing, life cycle assessment, and modelling energy systems – to find if carbon emissions were still reduced when indirect emissions from the electric vehicle supply chain were factored in. Further Ken Gillingham a Professor said “A major concern about electric vehicles is that the supply chain, including the mining and processing of raw materials and the manufacturing of batteries, is far from clean. So, if we priced the carbon embodied in these processes, the expectation is electric vehicles would be exorbitantly expensive. It turns out that’s not the case; if you level the playing field by also pricing the carbon in the fossil fuel vehicle supply chain, electric vehicle sales would actually increase.” 

Let us tell you that recently, the UK Government introduced a new law to force the installation of electric vehicle charging points in new homes in England from next year.