> Manufacturing electric cars IS NOT GOING TO REDUCE OUR FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never understood how anyone could think that. I

> Manufacturing electric cars IS NOT GOING TO REDUCE OUR FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never understood how anyone could think that. I think you misspelled "eliminate". Some of the sources of total lifetime emissions from electric cars are different from sources of total lifetime emissions for ICE cars. It's reasonable to believe the sums won't be equal. Power plants don't have size/weight constraints of ICEs, so it's rather easy to get significantly higher efficiency out of them (plus economies of scale). It's not idiotic to think total lifetime emissions will be reduced by producing new EVs instead of new ICE vehicles. (Though, keeping an already manufactured ICE car on the road may likely be better than recycling the car and producing a new EV.)