Maybe you’ve already read the blog Should I Buy an Electric Car?. This uses lifetime CO2 emissions to show why the answer, if you are...

In short, the answer is “Yes”, but that would make a very short blog post, so I’ll show my working. Let’s look at the relative carbon emissions of an electric car compared to a traditional fossil fuel powered car. The question is, what is the most carbon efficient way to travel your next mile by car? Let’s assume for now that you need a car, but we’ll come back to that later. There are two main factors that we need to take into account: the carbon emissions that result from t