electricity to charge up your EV is still far better than running your gas engine in the car. Car engine is no where near the efficiency of powerplant generated electricity. And this is including all the transmission loss. And not to mention that coal plants have more emission control than your gas engine.

We all need to do our part. don't leave all the lights on when you are not around. Don't run your tap water when you are not using it e.g. washing your face, brushing your teeth, for guys shaving. Water usage uses lot of electricity, water pump to pump the water from where ever it comes from, purification, pressurizing the pipe requires to pump the water to some high place. And you know how heavy water can be.

Do our part by recycling. Recycle that aluminum can. Recycle that glass. Both uses lots of electricity when it has to be made from raw material. Smelting of bauxite into aluminum uses lots of electricity. Alcoa has their smelter next to a hydroelectric dam because it uses so much electricity. Glass is almost as bad.

Do our part. Don't throw away batteries with regular trash... and so on.

And I'm looking into ultra light vehicle. velomobile with electric assist. Looking into it as in research and development. Electric motor in use for electric bikes are not that great to bad. We could do a lot better. GE has an electric motor 12 inch long and 12 inch in diameter with 333hp and that was nearly 20 years ago I think... half HP motor should only take 4 cubic inches.

Tar sand and shale is bad in so many ways!! Lets not just try to stop defacing earth and destroying aquifer, do our part by conserving and recycling. Demand less of your power needs. If there is no need, tar sand and shale technology will not be developed.