What losses occur from generation station to distribution outlet?
Electric car advocates only consider the efficiency of the motor within the vechicle. It’s actually more efficient to burn fuel to power the car than it is to burn the fuel at a generating station, transmit the electricity over long distances to the charging station, and then drive the electric motors in the car.
>> What losses occur from generation station to distribution outlet? <<
A hell of a lot less than leave an internal combustion engine. The MPGe may be a stretch as a metric, but you even if a Tesla Roadster doesn’t REALLY get 125 MPGe, it sure gets a lot more than the 16 MPG a performance sportscar would get.
The real measure of how much fuel it costs? A Tesla costs about $7.50 to charge... the price of two gallons of gas. It goes as far as an 8-gallon Toyota fill-up.