as-powered car can carry enough gas to offset the energy losses. A typical car has a 15 gallon tank that stores enough energy to propel it more than 400 miles (assuming 30 MPG) and all of this stored energy only weighs about 100 pounds (a gallon of gas weighing about 6 pounds and a gas tank weighing next-to-nothing). So it isn’t weighed down by the liquid energy it carries. And the weight gets less as the energy is used.
A battery weighs the same whether it is “empty” or “full.”
It’s pretty wasteful, lugging all that weight around.
It costs no additional energy to heat the cabin of a gas-powered car as the heat is a waste byproduct of moving the car. And there is no separate heater (and AC system) to heat the battery, because there isn’t one – other than the 12V battery that starts the engine – and it doesn’t need to be heated.
A gas-powered vehicle also does not burn energy just sitting, parked. You can leave it parked for weeks – and when you go back to driving it, you have exactly the same amount of energy remaining as you did when you left it parked. In this scenario, the gas-powered vehicle is a true zero emissions vehicle – but the electric vehicle isn’t, because it is continuously burning power even when it’s parked and in order to avoid not having any (or enough) when you go back to driving it after leaving it sitting overnight (or longer) it is necessary to feed it power, as by keeping it plugged in.
This power doesn’t come from the outlet. It comes from a utility plant – which probably burns hydrocarbon fuel to generate it. This generates the dread gas carbon dioxide, which we’re told it’s absolutely necessary to “emit” zero of in order to prevent the climate from “changing” (a neatly unscientific term that be literally anything, which is exactly why that term is used rather than global warming, which can be challenged using facts that it’s not happening).
Yet the EV gets a pass, even though it “emits” – or causes to be emitted – the gas that force-feeding us EVs is supposed to staunch the “emitting” of.
Even when it’s not in use.
Spectacular, isn’t it?
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