2013/09/09/How Green Is a Tesla

• when: 2013/09/09 (2013/09/09)
• author: Will Oremus
• source: Slate
• topics: electric car Tesla, Inc./Model S Tesla, Inc. sustainability
• link: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/09/how green is a tesla electric cars environmental impact depends on where.single.html
• title: How Green Is a Tesla, Really?
• summary: «The quick answer: If current trends hold, it could be pretty darn green in the long run. But as of today, the calculation isn't as straightforward as you might think.»

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To use the nation's reliance on dirty coal as an argument against electric cars is to get things backward. Rather, the prospect of making cars far greener than they are today should count as yet another argument against the nation's continued reliance on dirty coal.