"But Gil Tal at UC Davis doesn’t think much of them. “Large electric vehicles — Tesla Cybertruck, the Hummer — are not very efficient. We think about producing

"But Gil Tal at UC Davis doesn’t think much of them. “Large electric vehicles — Tesla Cybertruck, the Hummer — are not very efficient. We think about producing the batteries, wear and tear, the energy consumption.”" This is such BS. The energy needed to make a car is small compared to the energy used in operating the car. And BEVs are far more efficient at use of primary energy, even if the grid electricity is entirely from fossil fuels. A combined cycle power plant is 60% efficient; an ICE vehicle is lucky to reach 20% efficiency.