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Not less efficient, useless. Imagine instead of directly powering the car by combustion engine, you first use a combustion engine to generate electricity to fil
by croes 2y ago
Not less efficient, useless.
Imagine instead of directly powering the car by combustion engine, you first use a combustion engine to generate electricity to fill the battery.
How would the car benefit the environment?
- ggm 2y agoCoal generation favours long run times and is inefficient at being ramped up and down quickly. Using battery systems to soak surplus power time shifts a commodity which otherwise has to be negatively priced. The ideal input for a battery is of course renewable energy but there is a case for batteries as energy soak during times of low consumption, and to help stabilise demand in the network. This isn't an individual car efficiency statement, it's about socialised costs.