Electric Cars Have Hidden Costs | NBC Bay Area

A new study shows that a car like a Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Volt would increase household electrical use by sixty percent.
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Of course, there's no such thing as an environmentally-friendly car. Even gas and electric vehicles require electricity generated through un-clean methods, and simply shift the pollution to someplace far away. Cars also require extensive Earth-killing tar and asphalt, which harms the ground and contributes to climate change by trapping heat. The manufacturing process for cars is resource-intensive, and electric batteries are require particularly toxic materials.