But as the grid decarbonises (which it already has quite significantly) then electricity becomes less polluting at point of generation too thereby reducing the pollution burden of the electric transport.
Surely whatever method is adopted there is pollution of some kind, solar power or wind / wave power being the exception, but they seem to be way off yet. They sometimes have a blight on the landscape too unfortunately.
But I do take your point and it is a good one, but we are not there yet.
I suppose that the more electric cars that are sold will help accelerate the switch away from carbon fuels.
Oh and as for the original subject, you will be sorely missed (and I guarantee that you wil sorely miss your A2 after a while too). But there are reasons for the move away and so I hope it works out for you.
It is not so long ago that people would snigger at someone buying a Volvo, but now they are fantastic cars.
I had the big V70 Estate and because it was a drivE (the super economical version) it returned over 50 MPG (more on a motorway run) and was only £90 to tax each year.
It was driven by the 1.6 diesel engine that was used in the BMW Mini and so you would have expected it to be slow, but amazingly it wasn't. I loaded it up once to the brim with a flat pack kitchen (lowered the car to the max that did) and yet it drove perfectly normally.
To achieve all of that from a 1.6 diesel engine is an amazing feat. So "hats off" to Volvo.
Steve B