content: Consuming more goods won't save the world...people seem to forget that by buying new vehicles they're, at best, consuming natural resources at a slightly reduced rate. However, electricity generation can be done in ways that are more efficient and less damaging than an internal combustion engine burning gasoline; there's no reason that the power consumed by charging your EV can't be produced by solar, hydro, geothermal, or nuclear, and in lots of places that's the case. Of course, building an electric car, making those massive batteries, and charging it has an environmental overhead, just like building and using an ICE car. People want some magic solution where you can simply pay a corporation money and drive off guilt free, believing that your car cleans oil-soaked penguins and farts oxygen.