“There are a number of myths that people have when you talk about plugging in cars.
“One is that it’s inconvenient.
“It’s just the opposite. You never have to go to a gas station. And once you don’t have to go to a gas station, you never want to go back.
“Another myth is that these are just little golf carts.
“Golf carts aren’t powerful, and we need cars to tow boats and drive through floods and things like that. Electric drive is actually more powerful in terms of acceleration than gasoline cars. Plug-in cars can out-drag Porsches, Lamborghinis, you name it. So power is not the issue.
“The third common myth is that if we plug in our cars, we’re just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack.
“Electricity has to come from somewhere. Well, so does gasoline. It doesn’t magically appear out of nowhere. And I gathered all the studies I could find comparing the emissions and pollution from both gasoline driven cars and electric driven cars, including the pollution from the fuel sources.
“I can say very confidently that, even on our national grid in the United States, it is cleaner to drive on electricity than on gasoline, because gasoline is just so dirty."
Sherry Boschert is the author of Plug-In Hybrids.
