Verdict: False
When electric vehicles first gained traction in the U.S., only a small portion of the country had the right infrastructure for those cars to actually be viable options.
When electric vehicles first gained traction in the U.S., only a small portion of the country had the right infrastructure for those cars to actually be viable options. This was due in large part to the electrical grid that they would have been charged on being powered by fossil fuels. Today, technologies and infrastructure have improved to the point that on a clean grid, an EV might create roughly 15% of the emissions of a gasoline car. Even on grids powered by fossil fuels today, an EV will produce emissions roughly equal to a gas-powered vehicle that gets 82 mpg, which is still a good deal better than the most efficient gas vehicle (which is the Toyota Prius at 57 mpg).
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