But a gas car needs to convert 8x more energy to heat to be able to travel the same distance as a BEV.
Yeah, dunno what spin doctored green koolaide drinking site you got that from but without even looking it up that's clearly a load of crap.
While the ice is only about 30% efficient, the inefficiency in the battery charging and discharge alone would prevent EV's from being 800% more efficient which is what that 8x number indicates. Don't even have to look that up to call bullshit.
Numbers can be cherry picked and spun to suit any agenda but clearly this figure is not a real world number and is taken from some particular set of parameters to sound as impressive as possible. Unfortunately when something sounds too good to be true, it usually turns out to be a pile of steaming manure. Which this is.
I can't see why you keep telling these kind of fairy tales.
Well there is irony if there ever was.
TCO is what counts and that is where EVs completely suck in the long term (when free charging goes away and the costs of upgrading the infrastructure become clear).
Something else I read the other day was Tesla is no longer providing home chargers with the vehicles.
The cost of a charger in the US and having it wired in on a HD circuit is said to be 2 grand. I would imagine in the US thats a significant part of the fuel cost for an average vehicle for a year straight off.
If you are if the position you want to charge from home from your panels, Then you would need a minimum of $50K worth of panels to have a hope of realizing that dream in the US and $100K to make sure you could do it all year round.
A person would have to be confident they could make significant real world savings with an EV before purchisning one over the next few years because with the amount of new models about to come out the wood work from every established manufacturer and a stack of startups, The EV you buy today will be worth NOTHING in 3-5 years time much like solar panels here.
That 1.5 KW set you bought 7 years ago many have cost you 8-10 K but a new 6.6 setup is now $4K so you are wasting you time asking for $500 for the old set.
Going to be a real crapshoot with EV's and their battery life on the used market. Will it have a few years left on the battery or will it have a few months before the thing falls over and the car is virtually worthless. I can see loads of people whom only want to use the things short distances ripping out the OEM batteries and filling the boot with conventional Deep cycle batteries so the thng can be used just to run around.
Then again, with all the monitoring and sensors EV's are going to have as well as Big brother looking over your shoulder, Probably going to be impossible and the only thing they will be good for is scrap.