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Woman charges her electric car in her garage, USA, 1912 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

An electric car must have been pretty dirty back then. Most power was made by much less efficient coal generators after all.

I am not saying that this is still the case today, quite the opposite.

(Although no car is always better than a car)

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Well yeah, but an ICE car would've been pretty dirty too. For how light the cars were, they used a lot of fuel, and there was no emissions equipment whatsoever.

We've gotten pretty good at ICE efficiency. It's not as good as EV efficiency, but it's come a LONG way in the last 100+ years.