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Electric cars sales in the US ‘could prevent one-tenth of global cropland expansion’ - Carbon Brief

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Instead of growing maize (corn) to make biofuel for US cars land could be left to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2).

A faster shift to electric vehicles (EVs) in the US would avoid around 10% of the global cropland expansion expected over the next 30 years, according to a new study. Instead of growing maize (corn) to make biofuel for US cars, modelling in the Ecological Economics paper suggests large swathes of land could be left to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). This land sparing would bring “substantial” emissions savings, in addition to the direct benefits of electrifying US road transport, the researchers say. The findings come as campaigners and some governments have been pushing to end the use of crops f

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