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by noosphr 22 days ago
We still don't.

Until free/at cost car charging is provided at work when the sun shines you're just moving the place where combustion happens.

This may be a worth while trade in downtowns where the main form of car pollution is engine exhaust at an average of 20mph.

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All three employers I've had over the last ten years now offer free charging at work. New houses everywhere have been putting in extra circuits for charging for years. Apartment buildings are commonly built with chargers now, and older ones are starting to see retrofits.

Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available.

I think you may need to reset some of your assumptions. :)

And in Singapore I can get 10Gbps home internet.

The future is not evenly distributed and the outliers matter little.

>Electricity generation is almost always much, much cleaner than burning fuel in an internal combustion engine, and has been since long before EVs became available.

Depends entirely on your assumptions about where you draw the line for emissions from second and third order effects.

Saudi oil is so easy to get out of the ground that compared to coal it's practically green.

You've replied to me before - I really wish you would engage positively.
I don’t think there was anything negative about their comment
See their reply that came two minutes before yours. ;)
Mindless cheerleading is what got us in the state we're in. More of it will not fix anything.
The "long tailpipe" concept is outdated and incorrect.