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Originally Posted by aussiblue

Unless it is charged solely from a solar source all you’re doing using an EV is changing where the pollution is coming from and in Australia that will be mostly from a very dirty coal burning power station. And then there all the social and environmental issues around the disposal and manufacture of the EV's batteries.

I've done the maths in other threads. Even off pure coal (which the grid isn't anymore), you will reduce by half the emissions charging from coal vs fuel