Fact Checking
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If you actually look at the end to end numbers you will find EVs are not much more efficient than ICE when the entire process from end to end is considered.
Again, you are wrong, if you look at proper peer reviewed well-to-wheel energy efficiency studies then even "worst-case" 100% coal powered EVs are far more efficient and produce far less local pollution than gasoline cars.
(A very short summary is that coal plants are, in essence, high efficiency (50-60% energy efficient depending on technology) steam engines with excellent thermodynamics, and average electricity transmission and EV drive train losses are more than counteracted by the 10% regenerative braking claw-back, while the crude oil extraction, transportation and refinery process combined with an inefficient ICE engine alone is less than 20% energy efficient even for econocars - and less than 10% energy efficient in performance ICE vehicles such as Porsches that Tesla is displacing.)
This is a simple scientific fact that has been rehashed here numerous times already, if you want to dispute it please take it to other forums.
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