Gasoline engines top out at about 50% efficiency these days, but the average car does much worse. That’s not even including losses from the transmission, etc.

Gasoline engines top out at about 50% efficiency these days, but the average car does much worse. That’s not even including losses from the transmission, etc. According to the 2015 DOE analysis, the wheel to wheel emissions from EVs was less than half that of ICE cars. Even in WV, a coal heavy state, EVs produced less emissions than gasoline cars. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-950-november-7-2016-well-wheel-emissions-typical-ev-state-2015 https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-950-november-7-201...