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I just want to add that a good portion of buyers think they are "saving the environment" by buying an electrical car because it doesn't burn any fuel. However I was amazed when I realized that most of them don't understand that the electricity their car uses is most probably (around 94% [1]) generated using fossil fuels and due to loss of energy during transmission they are in fact less efficient than your good old gas burning car.
[1] this 94% is just what I remember from some years ago. seeing as countries and governments have started adapting renewable forms of a energy recently it's probably not as bad but still far from ideal which means the point still stands.
The EPA has pretty decent information on EVs and carbon emissions. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
and #1 myth is that because the electricity is coming from a power plant using fossil fuels, it's worse than an ICE vehicle