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The 85~90% efficiency claim is ignoring what it took to bring the electricity into the vehicle.


6 posted on 11/25/2015 5:14:16 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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“The 85~90% efficiency claim is ignoring what it took to bring the electricity into the vehicle.”

I thought they brought it in on a pack train of unicorns.


11 posted on 11/25/2015 5:16:31 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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Thank you for your EXCELLENT illustration. A car engine uses energy only when it is turned on, a power plant has to generate enough to anticipate what will be turned on. Until we all have our personal Toshiba mini-nuke plants in our neighborhoods we cannot possibly have great efficiency at the plant level.


15 posted on 11/25/2015 5:18:12 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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This graphic looks like a dog’s head.


39 posted on 11/25/2015 5:46:04 AM PST by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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Kinda like ethanol.

Its great if you ignore the cost of preparing fields, planting, tending, harvesting, and transporting corn. That’s before taking distillation costs into account.


44 posted on 11/25/2015 5:55:10 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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that chart is brilliant. informative and really well designed. thanks for posting. where is it from?


77 posted on 11/25/2015 7:29:14 AM PST by edwinland
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