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You appear to have omitted the *EFFICENCIES* parameter along the electric generation/transmission:

- (boiler & Turbine) equivalent to the IC motor

- Alternator

- Transformer High Voltage

- Distribution

- Transformer Low Voltage

- Transformer AC->DC

- Battery

- Electric Motor

Give each step a 90-95% efficency & you get 7 x 5-10% loss from fuel to wheels versus fuel to Electric to Wheels. You are welcome to refine the approach.

Oh. So we're really out of chimeric COV-2, PRRAR, early treatment & toxic genetic injections, are we?

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Absolutely. Many other elements are very very maybe over simplified. But well, that's the difference in writing a blog post in a few hours and writing a phd in a few years.

Yet, I doubt the conclusions would be different.

The COV area is overcrowded now. I will write about it if I see a suitable angle. But really, many many people are now covering it (unlike in 2020 / 2021 unfortunately)

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BTW, there is also the inverter between the battery and the electric motor, and it's a big source of loss, as its efficiency appears dependent on torque. The EV motors are running on AC.

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Inverter: OK - so it's 8 x 5-15%: EV means 80% of the original kWh potential in the fuel goes to *HEAT THE AIR*

+ there is not the capacity to feed such a consumption of x5 per km on a comparable kWh to wheels.

Even if 50% of the original kWh potential is hydro or wind, the ratio is still fundamentally x2,5 more wasteful EV against IC.

It is just as stupid as COVID, ModRNA, Anthropogenic Global Warming or Ukraine.

Cheers.

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What about Ze Bugs? 😀

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