(March 26, 2015 at 11:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: Electric cars are never going to be totally environmentally friendly until we invent an efficient way to produce electricity without all the pollutive waste.
There are ways to generate electricity by harnessing the sun's heat, not light as with those polluting photovoltaics, but heat... warm up water in a closed circuit.... warm it enough and you get water vapor... steam... steam engine.
http://www.cnet.com/news/a-solar-hot-wat...icity-too/
But there's always some waste. The materials used have a finite duration and need replacing - not sure how recyclable that can be...