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Old 11-14-2018, 12:39 PM   #3706 (permalink)
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I don't see how there is any way a vehicle that looks like a big pickup and driven like a normal vehicle can get anywhere near 150mpge.
The best that the ranger and S10 electeic converts do is a little shy of 100mpge.

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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
If the USA electrified all personal transportation and gained an efficiency improvement of 2/3, we would reduce primary energy consumption by only 10%.
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Embodied energy. Scale.
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Such a long way to go. Before liquid fuel becomes prohibitively expensive to build the things we need to ease more gently down from overshoot.
IMO liquid fuels are already too expensive.
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