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Old 04-18-2011, 04:50 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Technically speaking that's efficacy. In the strictly thermodynamic sense a fully loaded tractor trailer will be more efficient than a prius, which is all the LLNL picture looks at, but realistically a prius will use way less gas no matter what, which is why we need to compare similar things instead of lumping everything together to get a valid conclusion given the subject matter (EV car versus ICE car).
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