If one is worried about CO2 (and I confess I’m not), agonizing over American auto emissions while ignoring coal-fired power plants in China and India is like focusing on a hangnail while ignoring a patch of melanoma. US CO2 emissions have modestly decreased over the past couple of decades; they’ve more than doubled in China, and went up a good bitl in India as well - both countries continue to build coal-fired power plants at a signiicant rate, with no end in sight.
“US CO2 emissions have modestly decreased over the past couple of decades”
This has very little to do with EVs, hybrids or any other transportation vehicle. It has almost entirely to do with the switch from COAL to Natural Gas to produce electricity.
NG was so cheap up until the invasion of Ukraine that producing electricity even in New England was cheaper than the Seabrook Nuclear power plant. That in an area with limited pipeline capacity.
We have more NG in the Marcellus Shale formation than we can burn in the next 200 years. Instead of EV’s we should be building pipelines so that we can run every possible vehicle on Natural Gas.
Since trees & plants "breathe" in CO2, someone is not being very green.