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Originally Posted by Lordblood
I don't understand the hype behind electric cars. The car gets filled up with electricity that comes from a coal power plant most likely, which is more polluting if anything.
The only thing electric cars do is pass the blame from your car to the power company, but it doesn't fix the environment at all.
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The path to extract coal, collect the heat from coal, turn it into electricity, move it through the grid, convert it to different voltages and frequencies along the way to the car and then try to store it in a battery is terribly inefficient. Anyone driving an electric car expecting that it's the savior of the environment is kidding him or herself. There are alternative sources for electricity like wind and solar that are obviously less polluting, but they are not widely used.
What it does do, though, is move the energy source away from the mid-east and towards the US, which has the obvious political benefits.