| Why do you focus on a state that has one of the dirtiest electricity production and one of the lowest rates of EV sales in the US? If we focus instead on electricity production by source in the USA between 2011 and 2021: Electricity produced... with oil: 42TWh => 35TW (-16%) with coal: 1730TWh => 900TWh (-48%) with gas: 1010TWh => 1580TWh (+55%) with solar: 2TWh => 164TWh (+8900%) with wind: 120TWh => 378TWh (+215%) with nuclear: 790TWh => 780TWh (-2%) with hydro: 310TWh => 250TWh (-20%) So not only was 600TWh of dirty coal replaced by cleaner gas, the amount of electricity produced with fossil fuels dropped by more than 200TWh. Meanwhile, electricity production by renewables significantly increased. Or in other words, if you had bought an EV in 2011 and driven it until now, it would have gotten cleaner every year, which is not going to happen with an ICE. Source: our world in data, numbers slightly adjusted for readability. |