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Will switching to an ALL ELECTRIC vehicle system just switch fossil fuel pollution from the car level to the power plant level?
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From their FAQ
Don't electric vehicles actually just move pollution to another location? And therefore don't EVs still use oil?
No. Electric power generation in the USA does not use oil. Coal, hydro, nuclear, solar, and natural gas are typical sources for generating electricity. Power generation plants, even coal burning ones, are inherently more efficient and less polluting than vehicles due to economies of scale and the ability to more efficiently remove pollutants from a smaller number of much larger fixed locations.
Also, an electric car is far more efficient than a gasoline car, so the amount of pollution generated by producing the electricity to drive an EV a given distance is much less than the pollution from the gasoline to drive an internal combustion car the same distance.
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