Reasonable Electric Car

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Looks like a mini mini.

Electric cars would help decrease our dependency on oil but if you have to plug it in you are increasing the demand on the power systems and that electricity is most likely made from a big assed power plant spewing stuff in the air.

Coal is very dirty, and it may be better for the environment to burn gasoline in cars than to burn coal to charge the batteries to run clean cars. But if you are burning oil to make electricity, burning that oil in the plant will probably be cleaner than burning it in many cars, because the pollution controls in the plant will be better. Also, if hydro or nukes are used to charge the car, the pollution is virtually nonexistent.