Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than electric counterparts, report says

Independent , March 1, 20201

Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material over their life time than their electric counterparts, according to a new report.

Around 30kg of raw material are lost over the lifecyle of a lithium ion battery once recycling is taken into account compared with 17,000 litres of oil, according to analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E) seen by The Guardian.

The report calculated that the resources used to make cars relative to their weight shows oil-fuelled casrs use at least 300 times the amount of materials than electric.

“When it comes to raw materials there is simply no comparison,” Lucien Mathieu, a transport analyst at T&E and an author of the report, told The Guardian.

In full: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/fossil-fuel-electric-cars-waste-raw-material-b1809415.html

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