[LogicDesigner]

Just so everyone knows, what this article leaves out is that the vast majority of electric cars are sold not in the coal-heavy areas discussed in this article, but in areas where coal makes up a much smaller portion of electricity generation.

For example, 40% of electric cars sold in the United States are sold in California alone, and coal only makes up 8% of their electricity generation.

[MeshugeMikey]

California buys a fair amount of electric energy from other state's coal fired plants.

Outsourcing hides our coal fired Electric Energy Consumption

1. Navajo Generating Station – Arizona

2. Reid Gardner Generating Plant – Nevada

3. Intermountain Power Plant - Utah

4. Four Corners Power Plant – New Mexico

[DungeonMaster]

Just so everyone knows, what this article leaves out is that the vast majority of electric cars are sold not in the coal-heavy areas discussed in this article, but in areas where coal makes up a much smaller portion of electricity generation. For example, 40% of electric cars sold in the United States are sold in California alone, and coal only makes up 8% of their electricity generation.

Thanks, that's another aspect but I dared not speak of renewable energy.

[Sherman Logan]

A very good point. Much of the power in the West, and particularly NW, is hydro, the cleanest of all power generation methods.

(Though enviros want to tear the dams down, too.)