While this is true, it depends on what you mean by pollution. Air quality (NO, PM etc.) is highly localised and simply walking or cycling on a quieter road is better for your health. So moving energy generation away from population centres helps a lot here. See Bankside and Battersea power stations in London for examples.<p>Additionally, modern power stations have very strict air quality rules and heavily scrub their exhaust fumes to almost totally remove hazardous (to health) substances. This is much easier at industrial scale than on car exhausts. See SELCHP for an example.<p>Obviously none of this is relevant to the separate issue of human induced climate change from CO2e emissions. However, EVs decouple the generation from the consumption, enabling more types of generation. The benefits of decoupling should be clear to anyone working in software.