in their studies and subsequent jobs they have the opportunity to make a real difference to the social and environmental wellbeing of the world with an ultimate goal of carbonfree and sustainable livingwill evs reduce carbon footprintthis would depend on where the electricity is coming from says rayudu in a recent life cycle analysis study conducted by a major coalbased electricity producing country on average evs emit half the co2 emissions of diesel cars over their life time in a country like new zealand evs far outweigh fossil based cars as around 82 electricity is from renewables hence for countries like india the target would be to hasten its solar and wind electricity production since electricity from solar and wind can be sourced to drive evs in fact a course i teach at my university has a project on developing an ev whose electricity is harnessed from renewables rayudu says read alsopmo leads the way in ev charging stationsauto industry to conduct study on ev migration to discuss with government by rajlakshmi ghosh tnn published on jul 12 2019 at 0343 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app jobs electric engineers electric vehicles employment carbon footprint homenewsindustryelectric vehicles to offer more jobs to electrical engineers