Odd question to ask, perhaps, on this sub. But I recently had a conversation with someone who is blindly anti-EV and he kept rambling on about a “silent majority” of EV owners who “don’t care at all” about the environment. I personally don’t think that’s true, but I may be (sadly) wrong.
(We are both car enthusiasts, but he leans right, I lean left (and am concerned climate change). In case people are curious)
do you actually believe that charging an EV with electricity from a coal power plant to be better than ICE?
I personally think if you got solar at home, it makes a huge amount of sense. Or if you’re able to pay more for electricity to subsidize the building of alternatives, also very good. But in general I am not too much of the opinion that it’s actually that good. The only real way to make transportation good for environment is to use public transport
You can also get electricity from renewables or nuclear. But I agree that public transport is one of the best solutions.
I know, that is why I said, if you are able to pay more, so you can subsidize alternatives. At least that is how it works here. You can’t “buy” clean energy, because it’s not possible to distinguish between it. However it’s possible to pay more, and a part of it is energy and the other part is paying to get renewables built faster