The Best, and Worst, Places To Drive Your Electric Car

sciencehabit writes For those tired of winter, you're not alone. Electric cars hate the cold, too. Researchers have conducted the first investigation into how electric vehicles fare in different U.S. climates. The verdict (abstract): Electric car buyers in the chilly Midwest and sizzling Southwest get less bang for their buck, where poor energy efficiency and coal power plants unite to turn electric vehicles into bigger polluters.

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Location, location, location

[the grace of R'hllor]

Well, at least the pollution they caused wasn't being ejected into city centers where people would immediately breathe it in, but instead at a centralized location where big bucks could be spent to achieve big gains of pollution reduction.

The main benefit of electric vehicles is the ability to move to an electricity-based society, at which point the problem that would remain is getting clean electricity. Filling a desert with solar power plants would probably do it.

Re:no link?

[Mr D from 63]

I would say that if you could find a "Supermodels Who Love Environmentalists" convention, that would be the best place to drive an EV to.

Re:Electric not the answer

[MightyYar]

This isn't USA Today - he should be able to use his full vocabulary - it is trivial to right-click the word and learn something.