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ELECTRIC CARS Governments appear keen to support the move to electric vehicles as a way of meeting their greening agendas. However, most of the electric vehicle is identical to it’s fossil fuel counterpart and has much the same carbon footprint. As the engine is less complex, it is marginally simpler to service. Fewer moving parts can mean less to replace. Being heavier, tyres wear more quickly. The real eco problem is, however, the battery which is made from a variety of rare earth elements such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite all of which rely on highly polluting mining activity, often in environmentally sensitive or politically ‘difficult’ parts of the globe. Then, as just over a 1/3rd of US and 43%, of UK electricity is generated from renewables many EV drivers are still driving on fossil fuels. The world population is increasing and the number of cars is also growing. The UN forecasts that 68% of the increasing world population will live in urban areas in 2050. Improvements in public transport, renting and sharing of vehicles alongside working, shopping and socialising closer to home will have to become more common if we are to significantly reduce the 14% of world CO2 emissions which comes from transport.

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