Given an on-the-grid, non-solar house, is it more energy efficient to charge your phone in your house or in your car? If there would be a difference for gas-powered and electric vehicles, please explain that as well.
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This is a confusingly worded question.
If your question is whether a car or a power station is more efficient then the answer is a power station.
If your question is whether it is more efficient from a cost point of view to charge your phone in your house or in your car while you’re driving then that is a more interesting question.
I don’t know the answer to that and hopefully someone can do the maths but I’d imagine that an already running car would be wasting more power than a phone can draw so it wouldn’t actually add any additional fuel cost to your journey. Whereas there is a small cost on your electric bill to charge the phone at home.
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