Doesn anyone know of a good essay that really shows electric cars are good for the environment.
I mean, you have to make and eventually dispose of the batteries. You have to produce energy to charge them, and for all you know, that energy is coming from a coal-fired power plant.
It isn't like a Tesla needs less energy to move. That energy has to come from somewhere and I suspect it is still coming from oil.
There are alternatives to generating electricity. Although a good deal of it is still done through fossil fuels, the expectation is eventually we move toward better ways of generating it.
A lot of IT data centers are located in Washington state, because electricity is a lot cheaper dude to hydro-electrics, for example.
In San Diego, you could always hook up your solar panel to the tesla 🙂
Recycling of a litium ion battery for electric cars will be interesting. (Perhaps new businesses)?
