https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/27/electric_cars_cant_cut_carbon_while_theyre_for_the_rich/

UK government efforts to offset carbon emissions via the adoption of electric cars were last week slammed by the Science and Technology Committee.

According to its report, almost 20,000 conventional cars would need to be removed from the road every week for the next 31 years, if the UK is to meet its goal of having "almost every car and van" be "zero emission" by 2050.