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“Electric vehicles produce zero emissions.”
Battery-electric vehicles are not emissions-free across their full lifecycle. They have no tailpipe emissions while driving, but electricity generation, manufacturing—especially battery production—and tire, brake, and road wear still cause emissions. Their lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions are generally lower than those of comparable gasoline vehicles, but they are not zero.
“Electric vehicles have a higher total carbon footprint than gasoline-powered cars.”
This claim is false. While electric vehicles do have higher manufacturing emissions — particularly from battery production — every major lifecycle assessment from authoritative sources (US EPA, EU Climate Action, peer-reviewed studies) finds that these are typically offset by lower emissions during the vehicle's use phase. Over a full cradle-to-grave lifecycle, EVs produce significantly less CO₂ than comparable gasoline cars on most electricity grids. The claim cherry-picks production-phase data and misapplies unrelated macro-level studies to reach an unsupported conclusion.