evidence: From a climate perspective, a battery-powered vehicle is always superior to a combustion engine, even if the latter refuels with synthetic fuels in the future. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by the ifeu Institute on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency, which analyses the environmental impact of cars, lorries and vans with different drive systems. It has now been scientifically confirmed: Electrically powered vehicles have clear climate advantages over combustion engines. This is true even if cars with combustion engines are powered by electricity-based synthetic fuels - so-called e-fuels - in the future. This applies equally to cars, lorries and light commercial vehicles. [...] The result: electric vehicles, which already have the lowest impact on the climate today, also perform better than combustion engines in the long term in other impact categories such as particulate matter pollution, acidification and ozone depletion. However, the remaining share of coal-fired electricity in the power mix still has a negative impact on the environmental impact of electric vehicles and worsens their balance in these impact categories.