It is true that EV manufacturing has a higher emissions footprint due to lithium-ion batteries.

But as soon as the car hits the road, gasoline cars begin a lifetime of carbon pollution emissions while EVs make up for their battery manufacturing emissions with the first 18,000–36,000 kilometres driven.

EVs are also more efficient in their energy use with almost two-thirds of the energy used in a gasoline car being lost to heat. Even an electric car charged from an energy grid powered by fossil fuels is more efficient and less carbon pollution intense than burning gasoline directly.

No matter where you live in Canada, EVs are better for the planet than internal-combustion engines and its not even close.

EV batteries can also be given a second life after they are decommissioned from vehicles as grid energy storage and eventually can be recycled as they are made from recyclable materials.