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Here, Carbon Brief factchecks 21 of the most common – and persistent – myths about EVs.
FALSE: ‘An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even’
FALSE: ‘VW’s e-Golf becomes more environmentally friendly only after 77,000 miles’
FALSE: The ‘electric Volvo C40 needs to be driven around 68,400 miles to cut carbon’
FALSE: ‘Electric vehicles have little or no CO2 advantage over the car you already drive’
FALSE: ‘Climate change is accelerating because of the ban on combustion-engines’
FALSE: ‘Old bangers are the green motorist’s choice’
FALSE: ‘EVs simply displace carbon emissions from roads to distant power stations’
MOSTLY FALSE: ‘Electric cars are not green machines’
INCOMPLETE: ‘Electric vehicles alone can’t solve climate change’
FALSE: ‘EVs are [low-mileage] runabouts…[that] take a long time to pay off their carbon debt’
FALSE: ‘Synthetic petrol could displace electric vehicles’
FALSE: ‘Hydrogen cars are more sustainable than EVs’
FALSE: ‘Sales of electric vehicles appear to be slowing’
FALSE: ‘Electric cars could soon be more expensive to drive than their petrol equivalents’
FALSE: ‘There are insufficient raw materials…for all vehicles to be EVs’
FALSE: The lifetime of EV batteries is ‘horribly uncertain’
FALSE: ‘Electric vehicles can explode – petrol ones only do it in movies’
FALSE: ‘Under Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, 40% of US auto jobs will disappear’
FALSE: ‘Electric car revolution at crisis point’ due to ‘charging point shortage’
FALSE: ‘Britain’s creaking power grid cannot cope with charging electric cars’
FALSE: ‘How your super heavy EV produces MORE pollution than petrol and diesel cars’
Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/