24 January

I am provocative on this, but as an engineer I’m a bit tired of the rubbish. Just look at the difference in efficiencies here. If you put $100 of petrol or diesel in your car, $80-$90 of it goes straight out the exhaust pipe as heat, not into moving the wheels. You may as well roll the notes and smoke them. An electric vehicle uses 80-91% of the energy you put in with electricity to move the wheels. Nearly every cent you put in as fuel (electricity) ends up as energy to actually move the car. Petrol/diesel in fact is so inefficient, you can run your EV using a petrol-powered generator, and still be more efficient than a standard petrol car. It’s actually one way hybrids work.