Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
If the electricity that recharges the car is made from fossil fuels as it is on my area how is it any better than a gas powered car? I've never gotten the whole concept of why these cars are supposedly good for the environment.
As things stand right now, you can search up the answer as easy as me. However, I don't think the future of power plants is necessarily fossil fuels. It will probably be a mix of renewable and other sources. Even now, I select my public service energy source for billing as wind power and pay a little more. It's more a juggling of books rather than wind power actually coming to my house. When it comes to fossil fuels, coal is going out and natural gas is in, so it probably depends on the source, too.

As to the total environmental impact of the life cycle of an EV vs conventional, that too seemed like an easy answer to find. If you are only talking greenhouse emissions. Or at least so wiki claims. It gets muddled for me when you get into the mining of rare earths and other metals and also disposal costs. Maybe it depends on the greater or lesser of evils?