I'd charge it during the day at home, or a night at home. Depends on my electricity supply and whatever the time-of-use rates are. Even charging an EV from a g

I'd charge it during the day at home, or a night at home. Depends on my electricity supply and whatever the time-of-use rates are. Even charging an EV from a gas-fired power plant is still more efficient than burning gasoline in an ICE. Yes, even with transmission losses and charging losses. Burning gasoline in a small engine is wildly inefficient compared to utility-scale turbines burning natural gas. Hybrids have done a fantastic job in basically doubling this efficiency, but they're still no match for grid energy. My grid averages about 233kg CO₂ per MWh delivered. If I had an EV, and I charged it with 3,600kWh each year (12k miles), my annual CO₂ emissions would be around 900kg. Half of this is from gas plants. If I toss some panels on my roof, then the yearly emissions way down. A new Prius driving the same amount is around 2,100kg. So the argument comes down to the embodied carbon in the supply chain. The carbon released for EV manufacturing is about double that for a gas-only car. (I don't know where hybrids land on this, probably closer to gas than EV with their small batteries?) But the operational emissions dwarf the manufacturing and disposal emissions. Cars last a really long time these days. There are some regions (coal) where an EV will tie with a hybrid for net emissions. That's the worst case, a tie. But only one of those will automatically take advantage of grid improvements, more solar, etc.