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Old 06-14-2009, 03:15 PM   #54 (permalink)
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hmm.. so perhaps the best option is to supplement with a nuclear reactor.

doesnt make sense that electric motors use far less energy.. you cannot "create" energy, some of it is always lost to friction, heat, sound, ect.

The way I see it, if you use a generator to power an EV, you just have more opportunities for energy to be lost. Using a regular car, energy is lost in the heat and sound created by the engine, as well as all of the friction in the engine itself and the whole drive train. Using a generator to power an EV has all of those opportunities for energy loss in addition to the amount of energy lost while generating electricity, storing it, transferring it, ect.

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Theoretically if you had a proper generator and a battery pack to handle the acceleration loads you would use FAR LESS energy end up net plus at the end of the day (compared to just using the engine to move the car)

This is because using electricity to move a car is far far far more efficient than using gasoline.
I'd be interested to know how the potential evergy of gallons of gas compares to that of, say, watts in an EVs battery pack. How else can you accurately compare efficiencies?

I would agree that using electricity to move a car is far more FUEL efficient.. haha.

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