Anti-green Tesla in front of
bird-killer wind turbines:
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The present is short, and the future is long. Environmental trade-offs are changing all the time, mostly in electric cars' favor.
Natural gas has already reduced coal's share of the national energy mix in recent years. And the new power added to the US grid each year is skewed much more heavily toward renewables than the current mix.
If that trend holds, the Model S and other electric cars will only get cleaner. Besides, a lot of electric-car owners are already investing in solar power to charge their vehicles. Meanwhile, Tesla, Nissan, and other automakers are working feverishly to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of batteries. The technology isn't advancing exponentially, as it has with computer processors, but it is advancing.
To use the nation's reliance on dirty coal as an argument against electric cars is to get things backward. Rather, the prospect of making cars far greener than they are today should count as yet another argument against the nation's continued reliance on dirty coal.
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