The use of one Electric cars According to a study, it is only then more climate-friendly than that of a combustion car when it has driven 90,000 kilometers. This comes from a report published on Monday in Düsseldorf Investigation by the VDI Society for Vehicle and Traffic Technology
out. The VDI study assumes that the battery is charged with the usual energy mix, including coal-fired electricity. The abbreviation VDI stands for Association of German Engineers.
If in the future – as planned by the federal government – electricity from renewable energies were used exclusively to charge the battery in Germany, an electric car with today’s standards would be more climate-friendly than diesel or gasoline-powered vehicles in 2035 after 60,000 kilometers driven. If the electric car only uses electricity generated from fossil fuels, this limit shifts to 160,000 kilometers driven, the study continues.
One reason for this is that when mining raw materials, during the production of the Batteries as well as the delivery from Asia, greenhouse gases are generated. “E-cars and hybrid vehicles start with an ecological backpack in their life cycle assessment due to the resource-intensive production of the drive technology, as battery production now takes place almost exclusively in Asia,” said the company’s chairman, Joachim Damasky. In the long-term view, electric cars and hybrid-powered vehicles would then “permanently” prevail in the ecological balance.
He emphasized that the recycling of raw materials lithium, nickel and cobalt in electromobility needs to improve: “A lot still needs to happen here in Germany.” In order to make progress towards more climate-friendly mobility, progress must be made in expanding green energies and establishing less climate-damaging battery production. Only the green production of the battery and its raw materials reduces the ecological footprint “and makes e-mobility truly climate-friendly.”