Before you wet your panties over Elon Musk's boast that he will turn Tesla Motors into an automotive behemoth, you ought to read this essay:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed/
Once you add up the pollution from battery manufacture, from the eventual disposal or recycling of spent batteries, and from generating energy to charge the batteries, any sane person will realize that battery powered cars will pollute the world at least as much as do gasoline powered vehicles ... and perhaps more.
By the way, Nikola Tesla believed that access to free energy was a basic human right. Those who today use his name on their product(s) do a grave disservice to his legacy.
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