From an energy perspective, gas is a pretty terrible battery. It's 25% efficient for a car to discharge, and currently very inefficient to synthesize. EVs on th

From an energy perspective, gas is a pretty terrible battery. It's 25% efficient for a car to discharge, and currently very inefficient to synthesize. EVs on the other hand are over 90% efficient for charging and discharging. Gas is energy dense, but it's hard to imagine quadrupling vehicle energy consumption being a good idea. For uses like airplanes and trans-oceanic boats, carbon captured gas might be the best zero emissions option, but for anything where a battery works, you would never go back to gas.