It isn’t quite true to say that electric cars are zero emission.
In many places, the electricity used to recharge is generated in a coal fired power plant. The kind of power plant which the enviro extremists claim are emitting hte dreaded greenhouse gases.
So even by the extremists own criteria, more electric cars equals greater emission from power plants.
An Inconvenient Truth......................
It isn’t quite true to say that electric cars are zero emission.
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And if you count the manufacturing process for the batteries, it is likely a bigger polluter than gas powered.
My much loved but smug Liberal SIL was crowing about his new “zero emissions” Prius and the mileage it gets during one of his most recent virtue signalling lectures to me...
I think electric vehicles are a fine choice for some people, but asked him to please factor into his long term equation the coal or natgas fuels used by the utility company (steam plumes from their cooling towers visible from his house) to generate the electricity that recharges his battery pack, and the fossil fuels used in the manufacture and eventual replacement of that battpak when it goes dead and needs replacement...
As if unheard he sidestepped the power plant question entirely and told me he would trade in the Prius long before the battpak expected replacement time...So I guess that isn’t an issue then, hmmm?
Not exactly a white knuckle death grip on reality...
Yep. Hydroelectric, nuclear, thermal, or solar are needed to be “clean.” Otherwise, it is just converting one form (the dreaded carbon-based fuels) of energy to another.
And the emissions are concentrated in a small area instead of being dispersed over a large area where they dissipate faster.