wind and solar are generating more power in the uk than coal by a country mile.
this argument comes up all the time from the modern day luddites, 'oh but the batterys need such dirty minerals' as though the oil and gas industry on the planet gets it product from tickling kittens. and however dirty the production of batterys is you need only do it once.
the argument over the generation of electricity to charge ev's being dirtier than oil has been made and discredited numerous times over the last few years, i think that the worse case scenario stated that if you only charged your ev from power generated by the worlds worst polluting dirtiest coal burning power plant, it would STILL be 4 times cleaner than running on fossil fuels. like it or not, battery driven EV's are the future eventually, and we can complain all we like, but the day will come when petrol and diesel burning motor vehicles will go the way of the steam train or the vhs video. nice technology whilst it lasted, but old hat now.
