Electric Vehicles And Global Warming. Three behavior change trends could bring big improvements. If you assume electric vehicles are drawing their power from the average grid in the united states, which typically includes a mix of fossil fuel and renewable power.
Switching from a gasoline pickup truck to an electric pickup truck will reduce the total global warming emissions over the truck’s lifetime by 57 percent. This would reduce global co2 emissions by up to 1.5 gigatonnes per.