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You might be recalling that 40-60% of the fossil fuel is wasted as heat when generating the electricity, before transmission. Since cars are more like 80% wast
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
You might be recalling that 40-60% of the fossil fuel is wasted as heat when generating the electricity, before transmission.
Since cars are more like 80% waste heat, it still works out better to generate the electricity and feed it to EVs.
- theshrike79 2y agoAnd when burned in bigger plants the waste heat can be used to heat up homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating