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Originally Posted by taylora
If it's accurate (it's only one study) then I'm not surprised. I've always thought it must be far less efficient to generate electricity, conduct it hundreds of miles, go through various transformers, charge a battery....if we start with 100% at the generator end I wonder what we end up with on the road, maybe 15%? Who knows.
All it seems to do is move the pollution from where the car is to where the electricity is generated and where the batteries are manufactured and then disposed of at end of life.
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I wonder if they actually use the same process for oil?
Billions in making the technology
Billions in explorations, 90% fail
Millions to 10's of Millions putting an oil rig over the hole, Millions getting it out of the ground,
Transporting it, to refineries, Converting it to petrol / Diesel.
Transporting it to petrol stations.
Using electric to actually put it in your tank.
oh and god knows how much damage to the environment with spills etc.
Yeah Oil is exactly not all that green either to make fuel for cars.