Environment: Are electric cars really ecological?

Before we even know how we will recycle the batteries of electric cars, there is an even more important problem that must be solved, it is knowing how to make them.Today, there are just over a billion cars that circulate on Earth, including not far from 40 million in France.When we look at how many batteries you should make to electrify the world park, already, we have a first subject.

There are three boxes that must be able to check to use a car.You have to be able to make it.You have to be able to use it and you have to be able to produce your fuel.With a petrol car, it's about five tonnes of CO2 per tonne of car.

Afterwards, the fuel must be produced.You should know that before a liter of petrol or diesel enters the tank, it was necessary to extract oil, to transport it, to refine it.And that adds 15% to the emissions that will get out of the car themselves since the third source of emission for a car is to use it.

No CO2 emissions from the car

When we go to an electric car, we will find the same three check boxes.You have to be able to make it.And there, the bad news is that making an electric car is twice as many emissions as making a normal car because you have to make the car.And basically, it doubles the emissions related to manufacturing.

The good news is that when you use the electric car, there is no emission around the car or coming from the car.On the other hand, as for a petrol car, it is necessary to produce the fuel and in this case, it is necessary to produce electricity.And there, there can be shows again.It should be remembered that in the world, 60% of electricity is made with coal and gas.So it completely emits CO2.

Finally, a fourth thing to have in mind is that you have to be able to recycle the battery.A battery is metal, so it's something that we want to recycle.In particular, nickel and cobalt and lithium which are in an electric car battery are metals that can be reasonably recycled.But you must have the suitable sector, which remains a major issue.