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Let's run the numbers - Americans used 135B gallons of gas in 2022. Going to ignore diesels for now. Average MPG of a car is 25. 135*25 = 3.3T miles. Teslas g
by a_t48 3y ago
Let's run the numbers -
Americans used 135B gallons of gas in 2022. Going to ignore diesels for now.
Average MPG of a car is 25. 135*25 = 3.3T miles.
Teslas get 26 kWh per 100 miles, or about 1/4 kW per mile
3.3T miles / 4 = ~825B kWh = 825TWh or 2.815 quadrillion BTU
I sadly have to run and can't make heads nor tails out of the link posted for US energy usage - but at least we know what goes on one side of the equation now.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoTotal energy consumption in the US is 100.4q BTU currently. Current electricity generation is 37.8q BTU. It depends how much energy is lost in generating electricity. Since >90% of NEW generation currently comes from solar & wind - the loss will be minimal compared to current methods (coal & natural gas with an average loss >50%). I'm assuming that by the time electric vehicle adoption picks up close to ~0% of NEW generation will come from coal or natural gas. If we would continue to generate ~60% of electric from fossil fuels - it's maybe a net negative trade to move them to electric. But in 15 years - the grid will be <30% fossil fuels, and in 30 it will be close to 0.