Electric cars are supposed to save the environment, are even praised as "emission-free". A billion-dollar market for the German car industry. And exhaust-plagued municipalities hope to escape the threat of driving bans with electric cars. But is that true? Are electric cars really saving the environment? "The Story in the First" is looking for clues. Our speaker Merle Groneweg speaks in this ARD documentary: The automotive industry must be forced by law to check its supply chains for human rights violations and bring them to an end.