And? If you drive a car for 100,000 miles and it gets 30mpg the whole time, that produces about 65 tons of CO2. If the EV car gets its power somewhere clean, t

And? If you drive a car for 100,000 miles and it gets 30mpg the whole time, that produces about 65 tons of CO2. If the EV car gets its power somewhere clean, that ends up being about 13 tons total. For now we get some mix of dirty and clean energy, but that mix can at least be improved. Burning the gallon of gas will always produce 20 pounds of CO2[1]. [1]http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11 http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11