Not so green after all

Barbara & Robert Vanderpump, Wadhurst, East Sussex.

Because of the greenhouse gas emissions created in manufacture and extraction of the lithium for the batteries, an EV driver will need to drive 92,000 miles to reach CO2 emission parity. The electricity EVs use is not green either.

Over the last 12 months electricity was created, in percentage terms, by fossil fuels 41.1, wind 19.6, solar 4.1, nuclear 16.8 and biomass 6.9. Therefore the electricity is tainted by fossil fuels, and nuclear by those who hate it, and certainly biomass is not green since trees are cut down in America and Canada, made into pellets and then transported on diesel ships and then by diesel lorries.

So ‘dirty’ EV electricity could range from 41.1 per cent to 64.8 per cent.

Not so green after all.

Clark Cross, Linlithgow.