Electric cars are a lot cleaner than diesel or petrol cars. CLEANER. NOT SPOTLESS CLEAN. Power is still needed to create electricity, absolutely. But power plants, even coal and gas powered, are far more energy efficient than millions of tiny combustion engines. Additionally, the removal of these combustion engines, means your local air pollution levels decrease, reducing your risk of asthma, cancer, heart disease and strokes to list just a few. Furthermore, as we switch away from gas and coal, and move over to Wind, solar, wave and nuclear (Nuclear being the best and most preferred, if only we could get over our reefer madness phase, but for nuclear) Then our mass power production will be incredible green, clean and eco-machine maan.<br><br>Yes, manufacturing and mining still cause pollution, but the materials mined for use in electric vehicles is also used in other industries for other things so again, bulk pollution in a single place &gt; Micro pollution everywhere.