In the US, people often argue against electric cars saying that the cars will still get their electricity from coal plants. I've always held the view that even if they get their electricity from coal plants, there are reduced particulates in the air & in case the grid ever migrates to a better power supply, then cars are compatible and take advantage. Seems like Uruguay would be in a good position to have electric vehicles go mainstream since there wouldn't be that arguement against them available.

Indeed. The end game isn’t “produce all your electricity from renewable sources”; it’s “produce all energy you use from renewable sources”.

As a further step up, there’s “produce enough excess electricity to potentially produce the gas we use”, then the end goal where that excess production actually is used to produce that gas (that likely will be with much lower gas usage), either in the country or abroad.

I doubt they’ll ever be truly independent for their energy needs. The country is too small for that, as it would require producing solar cells, wind turbines, etc. inside the country.

Well, biogas exists. I mean, someone could try to turn waste into biogas at scale. AFAIK Germany is the country that produces more biogas and they are far from having it cheap or at scale. In fact sometimes they just turn crops into energy...

I assume the comment meant cars.