Study: Cycling is 10x More Important Than Electric Cars For Reaching Net Zero
Electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions.
By
Kea Wilson
10:06 PM CDT on June 3, 2022
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