Even if 100% of electric generation was coal power and regenerative braking wasn't a thing it still makes sense.
Once you get the consumers all using one fuel it's an order of multiple magnitudes easier to then switch out the energy supply with something cleaner.
Until the majority of the world's energy usage is electrified, it's a completely pointless thing to bring up how that electricity is actually generated.
Once you get the consumers all using one fuel it's an order of multiple magnitudes easier to then switch out the energy supply with something cleaner.
Until the majority of the world's energy usage is electrified, it's a completely pointless thing to bring up how that electricity is actually generated.