[bwindels]

For almost all cases, this is far from true. For a typical ICE car, the manufacturing emissions tends to be around 10%-20% of the lifetime emissions the vehicle. You can see the exact breakdown for a variety of cars, and comparison to EVs at https://climobil.connecting-project.lu

[Tagbert]

And, other than that one Volvo study, the other studies show that while it does take more CO2 to produce an EV, the improved efficiency allows the EV to payoff that extra CO2 within about 12,000 miles of driving which is about a year for for the typical American driver.