That's true in part--just like you can't run a car (at least, not efficiently) off of coal. But you can shovel the coal into a power-plant and run your car off of the electricity--and if we were to go to electric cars and increase the demand for coal, we wouldn't really be helping much; especially since coal is not only far dirtier than gasoline, but gives off more radioactive material than nuclear fission.Im a proponent of nuclear power to a degree. Unfortunately, you can't run a car on nuclear power.
Nuclear power would do two things--one is to make electricity cheaper and cleaner; thus electric vehicles would be a more available and more attractive alternative. The other is to make not just the electricity for cars but electricity in general much cheaper and cleaner--we use tons upon tons off the stuff every day, after all.
