Comment by al_borland
13 days ago
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.
This is the key. It basically makes existing EVs retroactively more green.
On the other hand you can't do that with combustion vehicles, trying to legislate more environmental regulations to existing cars is political suicide.