Not for long. Power companies are rapidly closing coal-fired plants across the country due to more stringent clean air laws, corporate climate action commitments and availability of lower-cost natural gas, renewables and energy storage facilities. Not even your orange messiah could reverse this trend.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel.
In isolation an EV isn't a bad thing, but they are being used as a messiah to convince people they won't have to change their lives.
Sure you have rich people who get a Tesla and a bunch of solar panels and bingo, they've reduced overall emissions.
But it's not the Tesla that reduced emissions, it's the solar panels. If you get solar panels and a bike, then we are really talking. Even if you can't afford solar panels, you can afford a bike. And for a huge portion of the US population, it doesn't matter if you were given free solar panels, you don't own a roof or a yard to put them in, either your landlord does or if you are in an apartment there isn't enough roof for all the tenants.
The US Fleet is 250 million cars. Replacing them with EV's and making it all renewable would be the equivalent of a billion solar panels. It would take decades to build out either the cars or the panels. And even if we could do it, we don't just need to remove the fossil fuel use from cars, we need to remove the fossil fuel use for current electric use, and that gets cannibalized if we put the new sustainable electricity into a car.
If we were to actually get emissions down to where we need them to be, we'd need to build enough solar panels to power the entire fleet, but then mothball the fleet anyway. Walking, bikes, transit, and yeah, a lot of people are going to have to move away from places where those solutions won't work.
An EV should be sold only with the caveat that the buyer ponies up the money to produce 150% of the car's electric usage.
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