The common rebuttal of the environmental-friendly claim of EV's, that they are only as clean as the electricity production that powers them, does have truth to it. It reminds us that EV's have shifted offending emissions from the end product to the source. This then begs the question, "Just how clean is that source?"
The article below from our Concerned Scientist friends reassures us that, yes the electricity source is not only consistently cleaner than the equivalent gas-powered transportation, but in some areas and for some car models, it is staggeringly so. And the award for the cleanest drivers in all the country go to...(drumroll please)...Tesla owners in upstate NY!
Click here to read the full article at the Concerned Scientists website