California will ban sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. It's the sixth-biggest economy in the world, yet emits only 1% of the world’s carbon emissions, and electric cars present their own environmental problems. For example, where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? And what about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production?

Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.

The argument goes like this:

Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.

First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.

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The actual year is 2035. By then ,Nigerians will start packing those cars and shipping them to dump ground of Africa... Nigeria