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> Coal fired electricity plants STILL account for 20% of the US's electricity supply. That EV will do no good if its being powered by a coal or natural gas plant.

If you replace a large number of ICE cars with EVs getting all their electricity from a coal or natural gas power plant, it can still be a big win because all the fossil fuel burning for all of them is now in one fixed location instead of a large number of mobile locations. That gives you a lot more flexibility is adding system to capture the emissions, and more flexibility to upgrade as future, better, systems are developed.