Tesla Beyond Fucked: Highly Unlikely That Its Brand And Reputation (And Sales) Will Ever Recover

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3. The big lie is that electric cars are "green." This would only be true if...

...electricity is "green," which with the exception of a few places like France and Southern Sweden in Europe, it isn't.

There is almost no place in the United States where electricity has a low enough carbon intensity to make an electric car have significantly less of a carbon impact than a gasoline car, although hybrids are slightly better than pure gasoline cars.

These things are a result of embodied energy, the energy resulting from manufacture.

All the pictures of vast tracts of land covered by wind turbines and solar farms have made the public delusional. Overall they are trivial window dressing on a fossil fuel dependent electrical grid.