There are issues with electric cars that people seldom talk about.
One of those is that in many places in this country, the electricity needed to recharge the electric cars is being generated in Coal Fired power plants.
So in that case, the allegedly pollution-free electric car is not pollution-free, because the power to charge the batteries came from fossil fuels.
Also electric cars place a big burden on our electrical grid. If we suddenly have tens of millions of electric cars on the road, it would strain the capacity of our electrical grid to recharge all of those cars. We would have huge problems if suddenly millions of people wanted an electric car.
“Also electric cars place a big burden on our electrical grid. If we suddenly have tens of millions of electric cars on the road, it would strain the capacity of our electrical grid to recharge all of those cars. We would have huge problems if suddenly millions of people wanted an electric car.”
Perhaps you are not aware of all that excess capacity available when you go to bed ...
Like rooftop solar panels, I'm guessing most people who buy cheap electric cars (not Tesla, BMW, Lexus, etc) do so for the financial incentives, not environmental. Federal and state subsidies, free charging stations at work, parking right at the front door, free access to HOV lanes. These things can make the Volt significantly cheaper to own than it's gas powered sibling, the Cruze. Who cares if it's powered by coal?