Did we say that electric cars prevent kidney stones? We meant that they prevent wars

Driving the TESLA, protecting national security? Electric Vehicle market launches in Washington

The Roadster accelerates from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds, drives 245 miles on a single charge, and according to Diarmuid O’Connell, TESLA’s vice president of business development. “That’s a game changer in the alternative [vehicle] space,” and “a matter of national security.”
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Branko Terzic, executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Energy Solutions, says the message is in the nomenclature. The cars “could,” not necessarily “would,” reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

“If you switch the electric vehicles from gasoline to electric power, you still produce CO2 because 70 percent of electricity is made from natural gas and coal,” Terzic said.