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Electric vehicles (EVs) touted as an environmentally-friendly solution to the climate crisis.
But it seems the electric revolution deemed essential to curb carbon emissions is running out of road.
Tesla 's Tesla saw quarterly EV sales fall from a peak of 484,500 in Q4 2023 to just 386,800 in the first quarter of 2024 .
Chinese car manufacturer BYD the world's largest seller of electric vehicles saw global EV sales crash earlier this year .
Volkswagen forced to close three of its factories and slash jobs partly due to slower-than-expected transition to electric vehicles.
Atkinson said greenhouse gas emissions during production of an electric car are 70 per cent higher than when manufacturing a petrol one.
But academics cited research to MailOnline suggesting the actor got his facts wrong.
They said there are no rare earth metals used in EV batteries, which instead use lithium, aluminium, nickel, manganese and cobalt.
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