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• JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  This compares gas -> motion with battery -> motions. To close the loop, we’d have to incorporate the generation efficiency. That will still yield an impressive number, but not 5x.
  • onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
    Solar => Car battery you only lose about 10% of energy. You lose more than that in refining oil to gasoline. And a lot more when factoring in extraction + transportation + point of sale. Closing the loop makes solar => car even more efficient, not less. Sure, if we want to be dumb and extract oil to power inefficient turbines to generate electricity this becomes a talking point. But not many people are building new oil power plants for a reason...