«[A] n
electric car running on power
generated by
dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.
He thought
electric cars were a great improvement because they would wean people off of fossil fuels, but I had to remind him that in most jurisdictions in North America, the
electric car is actually
dirtier than any other car because most of North America
generates its electricity from coal.