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Chemical to mechanical energy has loss, either in the genset or in a IC car.

Mechanical to electric energy conversion has a loss. Rectification and transformation of electric current has a loss. Battery charging has a loss. These losses are only for EV.

I would love to know the actual mpg of that arrangement.

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Total efficiency is still better than with an ICE car, because the motor of the genset can always run at it's most efficient while in a vehicle you have lots of inefficient modes of operation. But it's not what people want to hear.

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Perhaps. Certainly the generator is highly optimized for its application. It is still not clear to me that the miles per unit of co2 are actually there. It may be, especially when an IC car idles. I just don't see the cost benefit clearly.

The energy to build the generator for EV charging would also need to be "charged," to the EV's account. Maybe it is the exchange of capital for operating co2 cost.

The fact that it is being pushed on us tells me what I really need to know... "Somebody wants me to think that EV is better." Why? Could be about money, could be about control, could be about making the weather colder. It is not clear what the agenda is, but it does not seem to be about my needs, preferences, value, and risk.

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Around 40-50 mpg. Without knowing the equipment and specs hard to tell.

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Mind-bogglingly idiotic. It's more efficient to burn diesel fuel in a diesel engine car, then it is to generate electricity with it, and then charge an electric car.

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Mind-bogglingly idiotic. It's more efficient to burn diesel fuel in a diesel engine car, then it is to generate electricity with it, and then charge an electric car.

Absolutely. Every time you convert energy from one form to another you lose some of it. Electricity is the most expensive form of energy but also the most convenient. Great for house appliances and the like but the internal combustion engine is still the way to go for transportation.

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Yep exactly, it's like they will soon be telling us that farting is a crime and if you do it you will be fined. They just move the goal posts to whatever suits their current agenda. For now it's a moronic, slutty, horsefaced, communist bartenders playback.

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Nigger pe teacher in elementary school would give you 3 days in school suspension if you released a flatulence in the class room

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Lmao

I would fart every time in that class to infuriate the nignog and arrange a flash mob where we all farted at once after eating a lot of bean burritos that morning.

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“AFP fact check - that’s ackshually just a backup generator.”

Right. They also claim that it’s “hydrogenated vegetable oil” that is used for the generators I’m other circumstances. I’m calling bullshit.

Even if they are right, their beloved “biofuels” are still the primary reason for the subterranean reservoirs being rapidly drained under the American central plains and Rocky Mountains.

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A backup generator for when the electric grid gets overloaded from too many electric cars getting charged.

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In some cases electric cars help smooth out the load- when electricity is cheaper. The power company tends to have plans for this. If the power company doesn't heavily rely on solar, power is likely cheap at night. Peeker plants need to be used to make up for sudden load changes. The bidirectional plugin vehicles can really take advantage of this. I don't think the software is there yet, there aren't many electric vehicles meant to also charge others. The Ford truck is the only one I can think of. But you can also sell power back to the grid when the price is highest, have a setting on your battery pack to only sell the top 10-20% so you still have range any time you want to go.. selling back to the grid also makes it possible for higher demand for the community and the power lines don't need a costly upgrade as soon.

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A telsa x100d holds 100kw electricity but takes 108.7 to fill up like wasting 2 gallons of gas with every 20 gallons filled up in my truck so I'll just buy gas

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How much Diesel is burned to get gas to the gas station..

How much electricity was used to pump it through the pipes from refinery to storage tanks for the the trucks to load.

8kw is closer to 0.7gal

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Diesel trucks suck at fuel mileage a idling motor under no load can run forever if diesel is constantly applied. Shutdown for filter changing

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I will not get a pure electric car until AI reaches the point where I can send the thing the fifty miles to the nearest charge station on its own recognizance.