A new study entitled ‘Green Power for Electric Cars’ claims that electric car use must be backed by clean energy production and a change in legislation in order to achieve zero emissions, reports The Green Car Website.
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Research carried out by Dutch consultancy CE Delft concludes that without the decarbonisation of electricity production, electric cars will not truly be ‘zero emission’ vehicles, and that without a change in EU law they could still be indirectly responsible for a rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
The argument centres around existing EU legislation on car emissions that allows manufacturers to use sales of electric vehicles to offset the continued production of gas-guzzling cars, with 3.5 high-emitting cars permitted for every electric car sold.
The study claims that increasing sales of electric cars to 10 per cent of the total could lead to a 20 per cent increase in both oil consumption and CO2 emissions in the EU car sector.
