John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If half of the motoring population converted to a hybrid or electric car in the morning, I asked what impact of that would be in terms of CO2 emissions. While there would be no carbon emissions from the electric vehicle, there would be carbon emissions from the manufacturing of them and from the battery. What would the carbon emissions impact of the fossil fuel energy burning power plants that are essentially there to power those vehicles? Has any work done on that.