A Nov. 30, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) compares purported CO2 emissions from electric car battery manufacturing to those produced by gas-powered cars. "Cool stat," reads the post.

As it turns out, battery problems are seldom caused by factory defects, which reportedly amounts to fewer than 7% of all failures. Rather, according to car-care expert Bob Weber, an ASE-certified ...

T&E found that only about 30 kilograms of metals would be lost after recycling in an electric car battery pack. In comparison, an average gas-powered car will burn 300 to 400 times that weight in ...

A cartoon shared on Facebook claims the carbon dioxide emitted from the production of one electric car battery is the equivalent to driving a gas-powered vehicle for eight years. The production of ...