This is using energy already in a brand new battery under ideal conditions, and no inefficiencies of commercial fast chargers if you commute as much as the average in the US, and no average over the life of the battery, no average of climate effects on efficiency, or any of the other real world implications of EVs fully replacing combustion engines.
Plus it’s comparing the energy used to produce and transport the oil to gas process to the energy used to make an ideal EV car move. What about comparing the energy used to produce, transmit, and store the energy for the car. And it’s not taking into account degradation of efficiency over the life of the vehicle which, if both are well maintained, reduces much less in a combustion engine vs a battery. Plus many small cars can go more than 25 miles on a gallon of gas if that’s what we’re comparing. I know mine can.
I believe with some relatively small investments in implementing various current technology into EVs and the battery and charging infrastructure (like tech used for preserving the life of cell phone batteries for example), we could get to the point where the average could get to the point where EVs could replace nearly every type of vehicle under nearly every condition combustion engines are used in and be more efficient. That’s not at all what this article is even close to talking about, but it isn’t out of reach, just too many power struggles right now.
This is using energy already in a brand new battery under ideal conditions, and no inefficiencies of commercial fast chargers if you commute as much as the average in the US, and no average over the life of the battery, no average of climate effects on efficiency, or any of the other real world implications of EVs fully replacing combustion engines.
Plus it’s comparing the energy used to produce and transport the oil to gas process to the energy used to make an ideal EV car move. What about comparing the energy used to produce, transmit, and store the energy for the car. And it’s not taking into account degradation of efficiency over the life of the vehicle which, if both are well maintained, reduces much less in a combustion engine vs a battery. Plus many small cars can go more than 25 miles on a gallon of gas if that’s what we’re comparing. I know mine can.
I believe with some relatively small investments in implementing various current technology into EVs and the battery and charging infrastructure (like tech used for preserving the life of cell phone batteries for example), we could get to the point where the average could get to the point where EVs could replace nearly every type of vehicle under nearly every condition combustion engines are used in and be more efficient. That’s not at all what this article is even close to talking about, but it isn’t out of reach, just too many power struggles right now.