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Old 04-29-2009, 08:53 AM   #59 (permalink)
bennelson
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Originally Posted by Jim Bullis View Post
.....about EVs because electric energy was produced in a heat engine somewhere out of the car.
Neither wind generators nor solar panels are heat engines.

To say that electric vehicles are roughly as efficient as internal combustion engines because all electricity is made in a heat engine would be a false assumption.
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