I'm sure he was. It's easy for us to see 15 years later that the combination of EVs + solar/wind has a huge efficiency gain because you can get to avoid interna

I'm sure he was. It's easy for us to see 15 years later that the combination of EVs + solar/wind has a huge efficiency gain because you can get to avoid internal combustion altogether, but EVs were nascent enough in 2008 for that to not be as clear, so those assumptions didn't make it into his calculations.