As a rough guide from Government statistics, the major contributing sectors to transport emissions are road transport (70%), aviation (20%) and marine (8%). Of these vehicles, as of March 2025 only 1.5 million were pure battery electric vehicles. These health and environmental impacts of battery electric vehicles are currently exported to where the mining takes place and materials are processed (e.g. These environmental issues, which are currently ignored, will inevitably come to the fore as the number of battery electric cars increases. As the number of electric vehicles increases, government subsidies and tax and other benefits to promote them will become unaffordable.