Are electric cars not environmentally friendly? Clean electricity has led to a significant reduction in its indirect carbon emissions

There is a view that electric vehicles are not as environmentally friendly as people think, although it does not directly emit carbon emissions like traditional cars, but because the electricity it consumes is produced by power plants that pollute the environment, electric vehicles actually carry out indirect carbon emissions
.

But is this really the case? In fact, as more and more clean energy electricity enters the grid, this argument has become increasingly untenable
.
In fact, a survey in the United States shows that the efficiency of the average electric vehicle in the United States is now equivalent to a gasoline-powered car
that consumes 31 kilometers per liter (that is, 73 miles per gallon) without considering the cost of refining and transportation of gasoline.
However, such low-consumption gasoline-powered cars do not currently exist
.

A British research report also confirmed that the carbon emissions of electric vehicles are gradually decreasing as the proportion of clean electricity increases: when charging the Tesla Model S in 2012, the electricity used to drive a car for 1 kilometer will produce 124 grams of carbon; But charging the same car today produces only 74 grams of carbon in the winter, and only 41 grams
in the summer.

This is a welcome change from the continuous "decarbonization" of power grids, in fact, their indirect carbon emissions are decreasing as the efficiency of electric vehicles continues to increase
.

According to the UK Vehicle Testing Agency, the 2.
0-liter Range Rover Evoque has a carbon footprint of 125 g/km, while the hybrid Toyota Prius is only 70 g/km
.

It can be seen that with the rapid deployment of solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and bioenergy power generation, as well as the update and iteration of electric vehicles, the beneficial impact of electric vehicles on the environment will expand
rapidly.