Isramart: Electric Cars `Will Not Slash Carbon Emissions`

Isramart news:
Merely switching to electric vehicles in the UK will not have a significant impact on carbon emissions, a new report has claimed. The success of eco-friendly vehicles is dependent on a number of different factors, including the availability of green electricity, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering.

`Swapping gas guzzlers for electric vehicles will not solve our carbon emissions problem on its own,` said Roger Kemp of Lancaster University who chaired the working group responsible for the report.`When most electricity in Britain is still generated by burning gas and coal, the difference between an electric car and a small, low-emission petrol or diesel car is negligible.`He said that car manufacturers developing electric models is a good thing but it is only one way carbon emissions can be reduced.

Yesterday (May 25th), the Guardian reported that the new coalition government in the UK may phase out the proposed green car incentive scheme, the Plug-in Car Grant initiative. Over the next few weeks the new Con-Lib Dem government is expected to reach a decision over whether to go ahead with the scheme, which would give new low-carbon car buyers 25 per cent off the purchase of their new eco-friendly car.