Electric Vehicles Are Not “Environmental Abominations”

Here’s another in a series of fairly sophisticated discussions on the LCA (lifecycle analysis) of electric vehicles versus internal combustion engines, showing the exact fallacies in the reports that conclude that EVs are worse for the environment. 

At the end of the day, however, it really comes down to how EVs are charged, and it’s unclear if the author of this article understands this fully.  From his comments about solar and wind, he seems to think that the average grid mix is important here, and that’s false.  What matters is the typical response to incremental load onto the grid in the middle of the night when we charge our cars.  If that’s met with coal, the results are far worse than if it’s met with anything else.