[davidmanze]

It's not only about the energy required to run the car (where the owner has influence), but also the kind of energy used to built it. Especially the battery (where the owner or potential buyer has no influence on).


Stoppingdown has a point, and I think this is a valid discussion. The total ecological footprint of current (!) electric cars is something to question. I don't have enough expertise to prove either side right or wrong, but personally I am very sceptic the Tesla way (or generally the electric car way) is the solution of all problems, at least not with the current infrastructure.

 

    With all the plastics, wiring gadgets and the like, the difference between electric and petrol vehicles in terms of pollution from production, can't be good from either.

  I'm sorry all arguments against electric vehicles are " now over".........it's just a question of being able to produce enough of them.....and that's happening slowly........simply Tesla showed the world that it could be done......so kudos to Elon.....if he achieved nothing further than just that...we owe him one!

 

   When an industry as huge as the car corporations decide to produce electric cars.......it isn't for nothing!

 

 

 

   BTW. France produces 83% of electricity from nuclear power, the rest is hydro-electric , solar and wind power, so the "coal" word here is non applicable!   France's electrical generating  emissions are as near as dammit   zero!    Any one remember acid rain and smog in England before the smokeless coal era...I do!   

 

 Coal has to go!