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My putting solar onto my house and my keeping an eye out for an EV (I'm considering a F-150 Lightning) has nothing to do with pollution. I do think we have real pollution and it should be addressed. But as soon as someone lists CO₂ as a pollutant I ignore them, especially if that same person says we need lots and lots and lots more trees. LOL

My reason for solar and an EV is to wean my budget some from big gubment control-freaks who are using energy policies to control us financially. My solar system isn't near enough to be off-grid (it coming up on the 1st year has produced 55% of all the power I consumed in my now all electric house). But my power bill literally being about 30% of what I used to pay in both power and natural gas has given me less anxiety of what the Dims do with energy. Currently my power bill + HELOC payment (the HELOC is what I used to buy the solar system) is a hair more than what I paid on average a year ago for power bill + natural gas bill. But the HELOC payment is slowly going down as the HELOC balance is being paid off -- something neither my power bill nor gas bill did. By the end of this year my HELOC + power bill will be less than what I was paying before -- from then on it's a net savings.

I hated doing it. If I could drill and produce my own natural gas or oil I would because they're way more efficient. Plus I'm not getting near the ROI on my solar system that I do in my real investments. But my wife and I will soon both be retired and it's giving me a hedge against runaway energy inflation like the Dims are doing and promise to keep doing. That's only because I did it myself, not how the Dims do it through the utility companies and trying to force a square peg to fit a round hole winding up with a one-size-fits-nobody ala scheduled brownouts in 3rd world countries like California. I made sure my money was being effectively used for a system for my power consumption to give me some level of freedom from bureaucrats trying to force us all to pay tithe to gaia greta or go broke.

THAT's what solar is for me. And that's why I'm interested in an EV. I currently average 2.55 hours per day that my solar system has fully charged my home batteries and has nowhere else to apply the excess power (I don't sell power back to the grid).