Why is powering an electric car via electric from fossil fuels better than powering a vehicle with fossil fuels directly?
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Imagine your car is a mini power plant, only far worse since it’s cheap compared to a multimillion dollar plant designed to work at the highest efficiency possible while minimizing pollution.
Furthermore actual power plants have an optimal burn rate for the best fuel conversion and basically are always on and always run at that specified rate. Cars start and stop and work harder going up hills before letting gravity do the work downhill.
The more steps energy has to go through to do work the more energy is lost. Batteries, turn electricity basically straight into motion without having to use gears and belts to turn the up down motion of pistons into the rotational movement of wheels, thus having less steps and less energy loss.
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