A gallon of gasoline contains 40 kWh of energy. 24 kWh of gasoline costs less than two bucks.
>> A gallon of gasoline contains 40 kWh of energy. 24 kWh of gasoline costs less than two bucks.
Yeah, but once you burn up the gas, it’s gone. You can charge the 24kWh battery pack up again and again and again! (With electricity from an oil or coal fired electric power plant. ;-) )
“A gallon of gasoline contains 40 kWh of energy.”
By my figures, this is wrong. The right answer is 28 kwh. Plus, the engine is only 40% efficient so that makes it effectively 11.176 kWh of useful energy.