Electric power plants are about 50% efficient.
Internal combustion engines are about 10% efficient.
That’s almost a 5 to 1 advantage.
There’s energy loss involving vehicle batteries that lowers that 5 to 1 ratio.
Electric power plants have the advantage of normally running on high hydrogen natural gas rather than gasoline.
There’s a lot of energy advantage to electric cars, provided there’s spare electric generation capacity to charge the vehicle batteries.
It is a case of letting the electricity/vehicle markets work.
The Chinese “Great Leap Forward” was a disaster. When market reforms were finally introduced, China then actually made great progress.
Politics is best left out of economic matters.
It is estimated that if we totally switched over to EV’s that we would need to expand the power grid by 50% and what would that Grid have to run on to produce all that power, won’t be Wind and Solar.
electric powerplants are 50% efficient?? I have A power plant operator/ thermodynamics minor and nuclear power plant comstuction operation minor education and experience. The best power plants ones run in the high 30’s ..Sooo.. did you go to school for power plant cycle education? Ever heard of a rankine cycle? A mollier diagram? Whats the difference between and impulse and a reaction turbine? which is more efficient and whats the best use for each?.. Wiki is not always a good source for info..
Sorry Brian, Im a little wound up today. No excuse, just a reason.