yup, no fossil fuels used in warming that argon stuff up to 900 degrees celsius to make the fancy batteries, none used in producing solar cells and windmills for charging them, none used in extruding the plastic body panels, etc...
Or for transporting the material(s) to the manufacturer and then to the distributor or construction site.
I've had that very same argument with leftards who shouted no blood for oil yet won't address giving up their computers and their site servers, (nor their Playstations), powered by big oil.
Good point. That “if” your electrity comes from a renewable source is a pretty big IF too. Electric cars would be a major new demand on the electric grid - even if all new cars were electric in 10 years, there is no way we’d have the added electric generation capacity in 10 years, all from renewable sources, to supply the demand of the chargers. Heck, it’ll take 10 years just to get all the environmental impact studies done, much less ok’d.
Not only that, Obama has said he will strongly push policies that would cause electric rates to go through the roof under his “leadership”. So much for saving money on the “fuel”.
I also wonder how far the batteries will be into production before some nasty new problem is found. Don’t get me wrong, I use NiMh and Li-ion batteries quite a bit, but the track record with rechargeables seems to be getting worse, the more exotic they get.