>It would in principle be more efficient to burn oil/gas in a power plant and use some of it to fuel EVs Not coal though. Wouldn't it better to primarily focus

>It would in principle be more efficient to burn oil/gas in a power plant and use some of it to fuel EVs Not coal though. Wouldn't it better to primarily focus on closing every single coal plant first? (also I would assume the same is the case for the type of 'oil' burnt in power plants, only gas is relatively "clean". Then you also have all kinds of other pollution that's much more harmful directly than CO2) > All in all the excuses Norway was very well positioned to shift to EV because of the very high taxes on new cars there, they just had to cut taxes to do that. Doing the equivalent (i.e. 50-75% tax on ICE cars) in the US or most other countries is simply politically infeasible. I know moralizing can be fun but it doesn't really offer real practical solutions. > EVs are now more or less cheaper in total costs of ownership now That really depends on the state (of course higher taxes on petrol would help but again, politically infeasible)