Nonsense. You read the wrong magazines? Conservative magazines?
The more we progress with the renewable transition, and the more solar panels at home charge the EV the following paragraph becomes even more correct.
Most studies conclude that while the production of electric cars has a significantly larger carbon footprint than building gasoline-powered cars, EVs have a much smaller impact as they're driven. At some point in its life, the total carbon footprint of an EV becomes smaller than that of an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle. Exactly when that occurs varies by the vehicle and where it is driven.
