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The only environmental advantage from an electric car, is you can create pollution outside of where the car actually operates.

There was a children's book we had in my family, "This is what would happen if everybody did". Check out the areas where materials for batteries are mined some day. Try to drink the water!!!!(Please, don't!

Electric cars have a place where the geography of a heavily populated area does not allow airborne pollution to disperse into areas where the forces of nature can re-convert it. However, outside of these areas, you are simply doing more harm to the environment than using petrol.

Outside of specific geographical areas, Electric cars are for the smug brand aware people. Not for the person looking for what they can buy on a normal income. Electric cars are for the people who are cross shopping Porsches, Ferrari's, Jaguars, etc.

Hybrids, while still bad for the environment as they still require materials gained from more toxic mines than conventional metals, do not have the extra tax of masses of toxic batteries. Even better, will be hybrids with mechanical energy storage instead of chemical batteries. Porsche has such a system.