Almost all cars on the road will have to be electric by 2050 if the world is going to meet UN climate change targets, experts claim. Engineers from the University of Toronto created a computer model to estimate how many electric vehicles would be required in a heavily car dependent country. To meet UN climate targets, about 90 per cent of passenger vehicles in the US would need to be electric by 2050 - something the Canadian team say is 'unrealistic'. Lead author Alexandre Milovanoff, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, said people think a larger-scale shift to electric vehicles will solve climate problems. Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the team found the US would need to have about 350 million electric vehicles on the road by 2050, or 90 percent.

Source: Daily Mail September 28, 2020 15:03 UTC