What Does One Use To Charge An Electric Vehicle?
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Even if it is inefficient, a full tank will get you get you considerably farther than full batteries even in the best tesla you can get, as far as I can gather anyway, plus of course you have the ease of filling that tank up, takes minutes, not hours like the batteries take to charge.
I pretty much understand jack shit about any of this, but I always though like 2 or 3 alternators would make so one full charge would make an electric car have quite a bit of range, but it seems that's not the case.
At least I do imagine they make use of alternators, I mean, why the hell not
Some context if it helps. gas has an energy potential of ~9kWh/L. I think diesel is 12. If we could get 100% of the stored energy in fuel and convert it to electricity… energy crisis solved.
1994 Infiniti Q45 4.5L V8 ~12.5L/100km = ~115kWh/100km.
2008 Ford Focus ~7L /100km = ~65kWh/100km.
2018 Nissan Leaf = 18kWh/100km.