The topic of electric car use in Europe was recently discussed in depth during the science, technology and economics of running Europe without oil, ninth annual lecture by the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) unit last Tuesday.
Speakers set out various options, from fleets of electric cars with changeable batteries, to replacing oil with methanol, but agreed that there is no single answer and that all possibilities should be seriously considered.
At present a small, low carbon dioxide emission petrol or diesel car probably releases the same or even less carbon dioxide emissions than an electric car. So the change from efficient fossil-fuel cars to electric cars will not bring about a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions in the short- and medium- term, said.
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