I wonder--do people really know how that electricity they use in their EVs is generated? It is not the squeaky-clean, totally environmentally friendly (whatever that means) power that some people seem to think.
According to EIA dot gov, the breakdown is as follows:
FOSSIL FUELS: 60.2% of the total, coal and natural gas mainly.
NUCLEAR: 18.2%
RENEWABLES: 21.5%. wind, solar, hydropower, etc., also includes biomass (wood, landfill gas) and geothermal.
All in all, not quite so clean as many of us seem to want to believe.
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