For many sweating through the hottest summer on record complete with apocalyptic orange skies and unbreathable air turned environmentally sustainable choices into an urgent priority. In addition to the carbon emissions from the manufacturing process raw materials needed to make electric vehicle batteries like cobalt and lithium are acquired through difficult and hazardous mining operations many linked to human rights violations. So electric cars start “in debt” when it comes to their carbon emissions - either 10 metric tons in total or 1.3 to 2 times more greenhouse gasses than ICE vehicles depending how you’re accounting. Source: https://www.artikelschreiber.com/en/.