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NeilBlanchard · 10-05-2013, 12:02 AM

One gallon of gasoline has about the same energy content of 66 sticks of dynamite.

The battery in the 85kWh Model S pack is equivalent to about 2 1/2 gallons of gasoline.

I think the only think more explosive than gasoline - is hydrogen.

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