[bryanlarsen]

> coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions

The CO2 output of a coal powered EV and a gasoline car are roughly equivalent. If you add in the CO2 used when refining the gasoline and when transporting the fuel to gas stations, gasoline cars are about 50% worse.

> and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂,

For most pollutions, especially for PM2.5, locality is super important. Gasoline engines run in populated areas, power plants aren't.

[clairity]

again, CO₂ doesn't matter, despite the mediopolitical hysteria over it. it's a gas that life depends on and is well-adapted to. but pollution has been killing millions of people a year for at least a hundred years already and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. generation and transportation account for the majority of that pollution.