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Don electric vehicles actually just move pollution to another location?

April 26, 2017actually electric location pollution vehicles

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Don electric vehicles actually just move pollution to another location?

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No. Plug-in electric vehicles use power from the grid which comes from power generation plants. Power generation plants, even coal burning ones, are inherently more efficient and less polluting than vehicles due to efficiency of scale at which they convert fossil fuels to electricity.