Report: Battery production could offset emissions gains from electric cars

Nissan prototype 60-kWh battery pack  -  Nissan Technical Center, October 2015A new report shows that emissions from producing large battery packs for electric cars could cancel out improvements from their low emissions for years. The report comes from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which is usually optimistic about electric cars. In May, the analytic arm of the finance publishing house predicted that electric cars will make...