| omgwtfbbq said: on't get too far ahead of yourself here. An electric vehicle is far from a zero emission vehicle. Apart from the cost in energy and hazardous materials in actually creating the batteries, the energy you use to power your car has to come from somewhere, often by burning oil, gas, and coal. All you are doing is moving the emissions away from the car and towards the power plants.
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You realize that the difference in energy consumed from an internal combustion engine to that of getting electricity from your home, i.e. local power plant, is a huge difference. Granted the EV's still have an indirect emission factor, but, that amount is dramatically reduced from even the best hybrids currently on the market.
The tesla roadster is just one example, but as you can see it is 2x more efficient than the best current vehicle.
That difference combined with the current ability to add "caps" to all coal electric plants to capture nearly all emmisions would amount to a massive cutback in global pollution.
