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Originally Posted by BavarianHorde
I am by no means an expert on the subject, but wouldn't making and using electric cars just replace the non-renewable resource? I suppose it depends on the way that electricity is made.
My thinking is that it would use more energy, so you would have to burn more coal, or would have to build more hydro electric dams that would harm the environment. So you are not really winning.
I don't know. I am just wondering...
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It will definitely use more coal and put a strain on our existing power plants/grid infrastructure were we to transition directly to electric cars.
However, that's why there's a big push to increase the non-renewable power generating methods right now (wind, solar, geothermal, etc) and to start to ramp up the efficiency of these options.