[Texas Eagle]

Whatever. The electricity is still generated by oil, coal and natural gas power plants.

Plug them into hydroelectric power plants and maybe we can talk.

[packagingguy]

These make a bit of sense for some Chinese cities with bad air pollution; put fossil fuel powered plants far away and use EVs in the city.

[Cronos]

In the 10 years China has moved into electric vehicles, the smog pollution in 8ts cities have decreased rapidly

[GenXPolymath]

“Whatever. The electricity is still generated by oil, coal and natural gas power plants”

Virtually nowhere in the lower 48 is fuel oil burnt for electricity and the whole USA including Alaska is only 0.8% fuel oil. Coal is only 16% , gas is 43% , nukes 18% and (wind,hydro,solar) in that order are 21%

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php

I see Texas in your name. Then you would know that Texas routinely gets 60-70% of all our ERCOT grid output from wind and solar especially at noon and around midnight to 4 am. Peak sun and peak overnight howling West Texas winds.

At noon yesterday ERCOT and therefore Texas was 51% solar, 20% gas, 12% wind, 8% nukes, 8% coal. This is typical solar levels, wind was lower than usual yesterday usually it’s in the @15,000-25000 megawatts in the evenings and overnights.

Here is the free access level, I get professional access being in the industry.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards