Don electric cars just move the pollution from tailpipes to smokestacks?
It’s a complicated question; you can get whatever answer you want, depending on your assumptions. If you assume all your electricity is generated by the dirtiest old coal plants, then the environmental improvements of EVs are lost due to the extra pollution from the coal plants. Your only benefits are reduced oil imports, and moving pollution out of the cities. But most of our electricity in Minnesota comes from other sources; hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, etc. Thus electric cars reduce total pollution significantly.
