but what's so green about ethanol - or have I missed something.
ANYWAY....... I was reading about some research on this electric stuff and it is very ungreen !
Apparently the amount of C02 produced when making these batteries is so high that the electric car would have to do 80,ooo miles (iirc) before the break even point as against a petrol car.
As the electric cars are generally short journey they will never get to 80,000 and bound to need another new battery in the interim ( even more CO2)
Apparently the break even point with a small a diesel car is lower still than the petrol.
The article may have been in last Friday's Times.
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