Hidden delays of climate mitigation benefits in the race for electric vehicle deployment

Abstract Although battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are climate-friendly alternatives to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), an important but often ignored fact is that the climate mitigation benefits of BEVs are usually delayed. The manufacture of BEVs is more carbon-intensive than that of...

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Main Authors: Yue Ren, Xin Sun, Paul Wolfram, Shaoqiong Zhao, Xu Tang, Yifei Kang, Dongchang Zhao, Xinzhu Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38182-5