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>For an electric vehicle, energy efficiency is estimated at 90% Just because you draw the system boundaries with the inefficiencies outside, doesn't make them
by beerandt 5y ago
>For an electric vehicle, energy efficiency is estimated at 90%
Just because you draw the system boundaries with the inefficiencies outside, doesn't make them disappear.
Power generation, transmission, and distribution is on the order of 30%, before you take into account the inefficiencies of battery charging.
- nix23 5y ago>inefficiencies of battery charging And the huge amount of energy for producing/recycle them.
- adrianN 5y agoYou have power generation, transmission and distribution also when you want to generate synfuel.
- funcDropShadow 5y agoBut the details may differ. If you can generate the synthetic fuel near the energy source, let's say a wind, farm you can shift the cost of transportation from one medium to another. That opens up possibilities to optimize on a network scale. In Germany, there is a pipeline network to transport and store natural gas to many many places. That transport is happening without trucks or ships driving around, I assume there are some pumps involved. But you don't have to move overhead mass.