Just how wasteful is fossil fuel?
Most people think about what happens inside the engine…
But the real waste starts LONG before the fuel even reaches your car.
To make just 1 litre of petrol /gasoline:
Around 1,700-3,400 kJ (0.5-0.95 kWh) is used just to get crude oil out the ground.
Then another 3,400-6,800 kJ (0.95-1.9 kWh) is used to refine it into usable fuel.
That’s 5,100-10,200 kJ (1.4-2.8 kWh) gone before you’ve even driven a single mile.
That same energy, just to make the fuel, could be used to drive an EV 6-12 miles.
Now scale that to a full tank…
84 to 168 kWh of energy was used just to produce the fuel in a 60 litre or 16 gallon tank.
If that powered an EV instead, it would drive 336-672 miles.
And here’s the WORST part…
This doesn’t include shipping it around the world, transporting it to fuel stations or pumping it into a car.
All of which use even more energy.
The losses involved in the transportation of oil and fuel are staggering, but that’s another post.
Then once it’s in your car, it’s burned ONCE, and it’s gone.
All that energy used just to burn it ONCE.
An ICE – Internal Combustion Engine – also only uses about 20-35% of that energy to actually move the wheels.
So staggering amounts of energy are being used, just for 70% of what that energy creates to be wasted. [This sentence is difficult to understand. What does “what that energy creates” refer to? ]
Any other industry with these figures would be bankrupt, and it would be classed as an insane practice.
So, NEVER forget…
Before a fossil car fills its tank, it’s already “spent” enough energy to drive hundreds of miles in an EV.
Make it make sense.””
This could be better summed up by saying that the EV can go 3 times farther on the same amount of energy. The EV gets 3 times better mileage or about 100 miles per gallon equivalent, where an ICE vehicle gets only 30 miles per gallon.
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