# Who Killed the Electric Car

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**Category:** SON240sx Automotive\
**Created:** [January 7, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-killed-the-electric-car/102872 "2007-01-07T18:47:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jammin1911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-killed-the-electric-car/102872/11 "2007-01-08T09:20:12Z")

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> [@My S38B36 ('91 ///M5) Turbo Build Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-s38b36-91-m5-turbo-build-thread/10871/5):
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> Oh yeah, and BTW where do we get most of our electricity from?
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> Burning fossil fuels.
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> So technically, an electric car is WORSE because creating the electricity for it is dirtier than actually powering an efficient internal-combustion engine.
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> It’s a convenient oversight. We’ve known for years that cars are in fact one of the smallest producers of pollution. Notice how cars are getting cleaner and cleaner, yet the air and the weather are getting worse and worse?

They address this in the video, just watch it! 🙂

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