ELECTRIC
TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING
MYT HBUSTER
“IT’S BETTER IF YOU JUST KEEP YOUR OLD CAR”
The fallacy runs that it’s always best to keep old petrol cars going because it takes a lot of energy to build a car. But actually, of the energy and CO 2 a petrol car is responsible for in its lifetime, roughly four times is in the driving compared with the manufacturing. For an EV it’s about three times.