What Does One Use To Charge An Electric Vehicle?
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Eh, any above average crazed leftist could easily argue that even tough the energy is coming from burning coal, it's better to use something that's being burned anyway (since electric is used for a variety of purposes) than to create additional pollution by burning fossil fuels at the same time.
I myself don't think electric vehicles are an inherently bad thing, they can have uses, but for absolutely sure getting rid of fossil fuels is not at all needed or advised, they're there to be used.
From a technical standpoint, a powerplant is more efficient at turning heat into electricity. An electric motor is more efficient at turning energy into rotational motion.
The internal combustion engine sounds wonderful, has a soul… but is very inefficient.
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.