It’s much better when you take into account that to get gasoline, you have to refine crude oil first. That process alone uses electricity an EV could directly use instead - somewhere from 5-11kWh/gallon from what I can find, which is enough for roughly 15-33 EV miles - not to even mention the energy cost comparison for the whole extract - transport - refine - transport chain of gas.
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Ooops@feddit.org 6 days agoWhile that is true in general, combined coal power plants also only sit at about 50% on average, 65% with the most modern ones.
So burning stuff in a power plant, then adding some more loss in transfer, is not actually much better.
Which of course is not an argument against EVs but against coal and gas power plants. In the end they are still just glorified rather primitive steam machines.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 days ago
Oh no doubt they’re horrible. Just that when looking through the lens of propaganda where a huge argument t against EVs is that it’s still hooked up to a per plant, that the pollution is not 1:1, that even the worst case power plant beats out an ICE vehicle.
But that requires critical thinking and nuance and Facebook commenters got no time for that.