Originally Posted by
joshua362
I'd like to see a computation about electric cars with respects to the carbon that must be generated in a power plant somewhere to produce electricity in the first place.
In some countries you are quite right and one must not forget the carbon used to extract the lithium for the batteries (and the diabolic labour conditions for the miners). In the UK for instance we have numerous days now where over 50% of the electricity is generated by renewable resources be they wind, solar or hydroelectric and a significant part of the remainder is nuclear generated. Coal and oil fired stations are almost all gone and gas powered stations are effectively the only carbon generating stations we now have. So it all depends on the country you are in as to whether electric cars have a lower carbon footprint. Roll forward hydrogen powered cars using filling stations generating renewable energy to make the hydrogen.