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Originally Posted by JSH
Once everyone is driving 95% efficient EVs getting more than 100 MPGe does it really matter? For reference that is 4 x better than the new car average in 2019.
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In some utopian future it might not. But right now it does if governments and car manufacturers really want to push EV sales like they say they do. Because:
- The electric grid isn't ready for the entire world population to jump into EV's, especially with EV's that use more electricity per mile to move around the same people and their stuff. Any reduction in electricity used to move each person will allow more people to be moved by EV's before building out the electric grid. It also means less electric grid will need to be built out in the long run if people and manufacturers would commit to more efficient body designs.
- EV's would be cheaper to buy and operate. For one, they could be made with smaller batteries and still go just as far as they do now. And two, you'd need to buy less electricity to drive them. And then we wouldn't need faster and faster DC quick charging stations, since smaller batteries can suffice with less powerful, and less expensive, charging stations and EVSE's overall. More people would be able to get by with just an ordanary 120V outlet.
- More EV's could be made more quickly since there'd be less of a chance of a battery shortage with smaller batteries being used.
- More efficient vehicle designs would also makes long distance EV travel, as in commercial transportation, more viable sooner.
Or we could just keep sitting around getting excited every time another gas powered CUV owner breaks the 30mpg barrier.