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Old 05-15-2014, 01:43 PM   #9 (permalink)
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The electric can and should get cleaner over time, as we make the necessary switch to renewable energy.

For just the refinery stage of making gasoline, typically ~4.5kWh are used per gallon of gasoline. That means that an EV can go ~18 miles just on the electricity "contained" in a gallon of gasoline.

That just for the refining ...
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