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Little known fact: Charging and running an EV from a Diesel genny, the bigger the better, is still more efficient than burning said fuel in an ICE car.
The genny can always run at it's most effiecient while the car cannot, due to its changing load profile and gets worse for short drives. Might be different for a long haul 40 ton truck.
You lose energy when charging (converting into stored energy). It would be more efficient to use a hybrid then a all electric.
Don't think so. Watched a good video on the subject a while ago, but it's in German. Looked it up: https://youtu.be/5V7DvFFBLJg
Electric cars are more energy efficient by a factor of 2.5 to 5.9. Even today's best diesel engines only manage overall efficiencies of around 15%. The rest is lost as heat. An electric car charged with electricity from a remote oil-fired power plant still achieves an efficiency of 35%. This takes into account power plant efficiency, power transmission and battery charging losses. Even today's best combustion engines cannot keep up. Their potential has been exhausted for years. The exhaust gas balance of the diesel car is also significantly worse than that of a modern oil-fired power plant.
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