Electric vehicle skeptics often squawk that battery-electric vehicles like Teslas are nowhere nearly as friendly to the environment as their proponents claim. Well, the truth is a bit more nuanced.

DETROIT — Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through two ...

EVs are cleaner over the average vehicle lifetime in every county in the contiguous U.S., a new study confirms. They are cleaner even when accounting for battery production emissions, and regardless ...