Are ethanol fuel cars more ecological than the electric car?

 Are E85 ethanol fuel cars more virtuous than electric cars? This is confirmed by a new study by the Institut Français du Pétrole (now called IFPEN). With what degree of truth?

Most studies say so, an electric car charged with energy produced in a country like France releases less CO2 into the atmosphere during its full life than a conventional internal combustion engine car. But do some “green” fuels allow the good old piston engine to turn the tide? This is precisely what IFPEN (the French Petroleum Institute now called "French Petroleum Institute New Energies") asserts in a study that compared all the main types of automobile engines with regard to CO2 emissions. For this, IFPEN explains that it took into account all the CO2 generation factors that enter into the balance sheet of a car: that of the construction of the car (as well as its batteries in the case of an electric car), but also that of the production of the energy used to move it forward. Whether we are talking about conventional fuel (unleaded 95 type petrol), E85 superethanol or, in the case of plug-in hybrid vehicles or not, electricity, IFPEN has thus estimated the average quantity of CO2 produced for a vehicle on a service life of 150,000 kilometers, then for use of 250,000 kilometers.