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Fact-check: Does production of lithium-ion batteries equal 8 years of driving a gas-powered car? By Andy Nguyen, PolitiFact.com
Viral posts: Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years.
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PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: Electric vehicles are touted as an environmentally friendly alternative to gas-powered cars, but one Facebook post claims that the benefits are overblown, and the vehicles are much more harmful to the planet than people assume.
A cartoon posted to Facebook on April 29, shows a car in one panel with diesel written on the side and the driver thinking I feel so dirty. In another panel, a car has electric written on its side with the driver thinking I feel so clean.
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This story is part of The Road Ahead, a series that examines the future of travel and how we’ll experience the world after the pandemic.
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In 2019, Salesforce employees traveled so much for work that they generated a combined 146,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions. That’s the same amount emitted by 17,500 homes over the course of an entire year; it would take more than 178,000 acres of forest 12 months to sequester that carbon dioxide. Even as Salesforce worked to reduce its overall carbon footprint, its business travel emissions were rapidly increasing up nearly 18% from 2017.
In 2020, everything changed: The company’s total business travel emissions dropped 86% to just 20,000 metric tons, according to its fiscal year 2021 stakeholder impact report. What had changed, of course, was the sudden halting of all travel due to COVID-19. (Salesforce’s 2021 fiscal year covers February 2020 to January 2021.)