Someone does, just not me.  LOL.. I know my nephew used to drive a hybrid. Dunno if he still does.

Frogboy does. 

I don't.  Instead I do that 'alternate green' thing of keeping older cars on the road and not adding to landfill/creating a necessity for a replacement. [though saving them means I now have 3.....]

Either way, both things are good/better than replacing old gas-guzzlers with new gas-guzzlers...

One of my wife's friends from her quilting guild is married to a retired engineer who worked for Ford.  He's big into electric cars, they have a Leaf and a Prius.  They live in St George, Utah, and when she drives down here to Las Vegas to attend guild meetings (twice a month) she has to drive the Prius because the Leaf doesn't have enough range.  Within the last couple of years the casinos in Mesquite (half way) have installed charging stations, but they aren't fast chargers because (naturally) the casinos want you to come inside and gamble while you charge.

One of my brothers in law has owned three Prius (Priuii? Priuses?) and has had great experiences with all of them.

My father in law owned a Chevy Volt for a few years before he became unable to drive, and unfortunately had a number of problems with it.

We have two Tesla model X's. Love them!

I bet you do Brad!

I have a bicycle.   

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I have a bicycle.   

Is it an electric bicycle? 

There's a guy I see every once in awhile buzzing around on a little electric scooter, I think it's a Vespa.  For some reason it looks a little odd to me, but it also looks like fun.  He's pretty darn "stealthy".

Oh didn't think of that....here's one of mine....

3 SAABs, 10 Moultons and that MTB [now restored] being towed...

Yeah, I've heard all that -RG-, but I did tons of research and the only thing I read that was negative was that the power used to create the batteries is produced by things like coal and other pollutants. Hopefully that will change in the future as fossil fuels, including gasoline, die off. In my research though, I found that electric/hybrid vehicles across the entire country produce less pollutants than gasoline.

The color for gasoline emissions isn't even on the chart, as it is the worst.

Eventually all countries will go lectric, many are really pushing it, including (cough, cough) China. They are banning all ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles by 2025. Wish the US would do the same.

Understood, but they fit my lifestyle and needs.

The single reason electric 'is cleaner/better' than petrol is all about pollution displacement.

Both vehicle types require heavy industry in their production, are energy intensive and thus pollute to comparable degrees originally.  The issue arises when there is continued emissions in use, particularly WHERE they are used MOST...ie. in the urban environment.

Then it's clear petrol/diesel engines are going to be considerably worse environmentally - where you actually live.

However it's not all that cut and dried entirely, not when the true broader picture is used... abandoning an already existing petrol car into landfill thus requiring resource-intensive replacement [no matter how clean it might drive] can be demonstrated to be counter to true 'green thinking', particularly when politics and agenda are involved.

Yes, there's a potential for battery fire/explosion....but every car on the planet has a battery....so that's nothing new...and yes. people have died from 'normal' battery fires/explosions.  Obviously they have ALSO died from petrol/fuel fires as well.... so that distinction against electric cars fails dismally.

Looking at the waste/recycling of the 2 options...with oil it mostly ends up as plastics, tyres or macadam/tarmac/bitumen [same shit] for road making and carcinogenic lung failures , whereas with electrics there are going to be a shitload of spent cells full of heavy metals that'll need both careful handling and clever options for re-use.

Being an Architect for 46 years, I've been dealing with the moralities of energy consumption and how to make less of an impact.   The only true solution is 'Soylent Green' as population growth and resultant urban sprawl will get us all in the end, no matter what we do.  Pretty much everything is a case of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...

Best thing you can do....live your life within walking distance of where you earn your existence.  I've done that for over 35 years ....and yes, I know it is mostly unobtainable.  As Ned Kelly last said as he was about to hang...."Such is life."

On another aside...those 3 SAABs of mine ...between them they do about 5000 km per year .... 3000 miles .... significantly less than Joe Average with one car...

I don't want to destroy it for you and I honestly have no alternative, but the environmental argument for electric cars  is unfortunately not quite accurate. Apart from the problems of producing and what happens to wrecked electric cars afterwards :

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact

Hydrogen.  Same [mostly] coal-fired electric generation that only affects 'country folk' [wry cynicism] but no issues re waste at the user end.  Don't drink the exhaust...it'll be less thrilling than warm, flat Coke.... 

A skate board equipped with a sail. Wind power......just don't try going uphill.