https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-ab... FALSE: ‘An E

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-ab... FALSE: ‘An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even’ One of the most common false claims made against EVs is that they offer little or no climate benefit over conventional cars, due to the emissions associated with making their battery. In a Twitter post promoting his anti-EV comment article for the Daily Mail, for example, the climate-sceptic former Conservative peer Matt Ridley claimed: “An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even with an ICE [internal combustion engine] car. That number is growing, not shrinking.” This is doubly false. As Carbon Brief showed in its 2019 factcheck, it takes less than two years for a typical EV to pay off the “carbon debt” from its battery. Over the full vehicle lifecycle, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from an EV are around three times lower than an average petrol car.