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Gigachadtoday at 3:23 AM1 replyview on HN

Coal power plants are also massively more efficient than ICE cars. They can run consistently at their optimum rpm rather than start stop usage.


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al_borlandtoday at 3:52 AM

One other decent argument I heard in favor of EVs is that they’re agnostic to where that power is generated. So once that coal plant is replaced with natural gas, solar, wind, or whatever, all the EVs in that area will instantly become cleaner without everyone having to buy a new car after the changes is made.