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> orders of magnitude more efficient This is simply not true. It's more efficient, but a typical gasoline car gets around 20% efficiency (large diesel trucks c
by nwiswell 3y ago
> orders of magnitude more efficient
This is simply not true. It's more efficient, but a typical gasoline car gets around 20% efficiency (large diesel trucks can be significantly greater).
A modern, state of the art combined cycle natural gas fired power plant is only up to around 60% efficient. There's some additional loss for distribution, charging the EV battery, and in the electric motor, but it's not large and you're probably about 50% efficient overall.
Another win is that natural gas emits around 25% less CO2 than gasoline per unit of energy. And of course if you're powering your car with solar, then that's much better.
Anyway, thermal efficiency is on the order of 2.5x better, not "orders of magnitude".