If climate change is an existential threat to the planet, what is the solution?
If everyone in the world bought an electric car, would that solve the problem?
There are about 1.4 billion cars in the world and only 19% are in the US. These cars have to be plugged into an electric outlet.
The power plants providing that energy aren’t emission-free; even in California, 60% of electricity came from burning fossil fuels in 2015, while solar and wind together made up less than 14%.
If we have electric cars, aren’t we still burning the fossil fuels to power the electric cars? We just do it earlier.
And how many of the 1.4 billion car owners can afford an electrical car?
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