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> It assumes Government subsidies for solar, which may be going away for political reasons.

Isn't their car operation also vulnerable? Tax credits may be less easy to get rid of, from a political perspective, but I think Trump would be far more interested in promoting cars that run on coal than cars that run on electricity.

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If the solar plan falls apart, electric cars would prop up the coal industry better than gasoline cars. The electric cars you charge from your wall outlet will be powered by coal, no?

My understanding is that the economics of power generation are deprecating coal: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/12/despite-trumps-promise-e...

So it would be better to have electric vehicles than ICE in its current form, but more power grid usage will likely accelerate other technologies rather than make coal profitable again.

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