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NNadir

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4. I wish that electric vehicles were "gay and woke" but in most of the US...
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 07:49 AM
Yesterday

...electricity is carbon intensive. As I point out from time to time, on my grid, PJM, purely electric cars have a higher carbon intensity, if one includes embodied energy, than internal combustion engines.

This might be good for Musk, but not for the environment.

As far as carbon intensity goes, an electric car might be reasonably "green" in France, but not here.

There isn't enough slave mined cobalt on this planet to electrify all the world's cars in any case.

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