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Originally Posted by frose
when coal and fossil fuels make electricity, the more they make the more pollution they make.. 900 miles at this time is not possible the technology is just not there yet.. electric rates will rival gas prices, it has to, until a way is found to make electric cheap and clean and china is not there yet. they are the one who will lead this and will be stuck with our thumbs up our buts trying to figure out what happened.. also where do you dispose of used up batteries.. great idea, just not ready yet.. this needs time to develop.
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Batteries are not thrown away, don't know where you are hearing that, but they are recycled.
EV cost per mile for electricity is already less expensive that gas for an ICE.
Absolutely agree, coal pollution is very bad and coal is used for about 1/5 of the electricity generated in the US, natural gas - a MUCH cleaner source - is used for most. Coal is being retired as plants are decommissioned and replaced with cleaner plants using gas, wind and solar.
And last, actually China is lagging on EVs. Tesla leads the world right now. But, China's strength is they will launch a massive number of different vehicles testing the markets, figure out the optimum market right now and target it. The will catch up very fast.