26 January

Another way to look at the future of vehicles is to compare actual energy use, per km. While it takes the same energy to move the same mass the same distance, what that leaves out is efficiency of conversion of the energy into movement. EVs win hands-down. They’re 500% more efficient at converting the energy from their fuel (electricity) into movement of the vehicle. Most (up to 90% or even more) of the energy petrol or diesel vehicles have in their fuel is burned and goes straight out the exhaust, adding nothing to the movement of the vehicle at all. This is true even if the EV is charged by electricty from coal-fired power stations.