While electric vehicles are often touted as the climate-friendly green alternative to standard combustion engines, there are some people that question whether this is really the case, or if it is just a particularly egregious example of greenwashing. While the cars themselves do not emit any carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, the production of these cars, as well as the electricity they consume, most certainly does. Do the calculations really work out in favor of EVs? No, according to some researchers. “Electric vehicles also emit substantial amounts of CO2, the only difference being that the exhaust is released at a remove – that is, at the power plant,” Hans-Werner Sinn wrote for the Guardian in November of last year. “As long as coal- or gas-fired power plants are needed to ensure energy supply during the ‘dark doldrums’ when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not […]