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Originally Posted by Lucky13
Yet over 50% of the vehicles sold in the US are trucks and a lot of those are V8's. Stop selling trucks and GM is dead if they aren't already due to recalls. See how much profit Ford makes without selling 700,000 F series trucks each year. Last I checked Tesla cars run pretty much on electricity produced by coal or natural gas.
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Yes, electric cars do run on electricity which is in most cases produced by carbon based fuels. However, electric motors are much more efficient than gasoline motors. So the amount of carbon based fuels burned to produce the amount of electricity needed to move the electric car a mile is much lower than for a gasoline car.
Also, a growing amount of our electricity is produced from solar, wind and hydro power. In California almost 30% of electricity is now produced by these renewable sources.