Originally Posted by MellowGold
Power-plants are considerably more efficient than your everyday car. So yes, you would be saving energy and hence polluting less. In addition to this, much of the US is powered by 'clean' sources (nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, etc). These clean sources of power are slowly becoming more popular.
In the end, a nuclear power plant charging an EV will produce zero emissions.
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yeah they're real clean alright, and only a small number have the scrubbers to clean the emissions, many were granfathered in. Not to mention coal is a fossil fuel and non-renewable resource. So we would be going from dependance on oil to coal. That's what we call a latteral move.
Nuclear would be great, if it weren't for all that radioactive waste we have to store for a bazillion years. Then of course there is the cost of building the amount of plants we would need to compensate for the increase in demand. Thus raising the price and the amount of waste.
Why can't you just accept that the tree humpping hippie cars are fucking junk? Quit clinging to you feel good idealism and look at reality. If we all have our heads in our asses nothing will ever get done. We should be researching better technology instead of wasting time with something that makes you feel warm and fuzzy.