Content Note: This article contains discussion of child labour and human rights abuses. These ever-growing numbers are often the cause of great celebration. For lots of people, electric cars are the perfect sustainable solution to reduce vehicle pollution and tackle the climate crisis. In many ways, they’re right. If we are to stand any chance of keeping global warming to within 1.5°C and avoiding the “severe, widespread and irreversible” impacts that are forecast beyond this, we need to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, road transport makes up 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions every year. Therefore, significantly reducing vehicle emissions could have a serious impact on global emissions.