Many consider that electric cars produce no CO
2. Well in operation this is true they do not, however when they are charged they take electrical energy from the electrical power grid which has in turn been generated by 80% fossil fuels. The upshot is that using an electric car will also produce CO
2, but according to the calculations below it is about half that of a car powered by internal combustion and in the UK it could cost 3 times less than petrol! This is great, but the technology infrastructure for electric cars is still some time off, so don’t run off the car showroom yet!
