An electric vehicle with a 250-mile range would have to be driven almost 40,000 miles “just to pay off its emissions debt

See ‘The Car’ Review: Machine Dreams by Mark Yost. He reviews the book The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard. Excerpts:

"Electric vehicles have oft-ignored production costs, such as batteries that rely on specialty metals found in some not-so-pleasant places like China, which could care less about its carbon footprint and uses its resources to shape global policy. The author cites a study by the International Energy Agency that suggests that an electric vehicle with a 250-mile range would have to be driven almost 40,000 miles “just to pay off its emissions debt.”" 

"in 1900 London there were some 50,000 horses depositing about 500 tons of manure daily, which “formed banks along the pavements of even the most fashionable streets and when wet formed a ‘pea soup’ that would be flung up in sheets by passing carriages.”"