The carbon footprint from electric car batteries is pretty nuts

Thirty countries also say they’ll phase out gas-powered cars. But this is just dumb. It will not happen. It’s magical thinking.

In my new video, I point out some “inconvenient” facts about electric cars—simple truths that politicians and green activists just don’t seem to understand.

“Electric cars are amazing,” says physicist Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute. “But they won’t change the future in any significant way [as far as] oil use or carbon dioxide emissions.”

Inconvenient fact one: Selling more electric cars won’t reduce oil use very much.