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Originally Posted by 04_Sentra
If an EV gets 300Whr/mile it can travel 379 billion miles. 
From table 2 we can calculate Gasoline production of 131 billion gallons.
Average mileage for US fleet passenger cars is 22.6mpg so can travel almost 3 trillion miles. Dang…  so shutting down the oil refineries won’t provide enough electricity to power EV the same number of miles. |
These figures are in good agreement with the 90.x% efficiency figure given by the DoE.
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I’m still very proEV. They should be an important part of the transportation solution. Gasoline should be used more efficiently too.
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I am pro-electrification (though I think short range PHEVs make better sense than EVs, certainly in the near term), but I am far more strongly pro coal phaseout. Actually, if EV adoption goes too smoothly, there goes the gas price crunch which I'm hoping will awaken the masses to the importance of good energy policy. I really hope we never see a cheap, coal-fired SUV, but it looks like it's on the way.