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Originally Posted by litesong
As 5thstreet says the internal combustion engine's days are numbered. The electric motor is 3+times more efficient than the ICE. On top of the 3+times more efficiency, my Washington State produces equivalent electric power(kilowatts to Horsepower) with only 4% of the pollution of ICE. With the quickly mounting interest in Wind, solar, tidal, wave & other forms of renewable energy production, other states have my state's pollution reductions to aim at...if you so desire.
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Looking at the Motor is just a small view of the system.........
Do you know the efficiency of the average electric power plant, including the transmission and distribution to get that power to your house and than the loss of energy in the battery chargers? to replenish car Batteries?
I hate to bring you bad news, but if you look at that side, with real data, you'll find that is no better that that low eff ICE.
Here's some reading to help better understand the misconceptions.
http://www.npc.org/Study_Topic_Paper...Efficiency.pdf
Diesel vs. Gasoline
and this one
The Battery Powered Car
The fact is most don't consider or understand the true efficiency of converting that fossil fuel into the power used to change a car battery. They just look at the new power plants and do not consider all the losses between the plant and the battery. By far the majority of generation in the North America is 30 year old low efficiency and dirty emission units. Another detail is fossil fired power generation is king and will be for some time. Cost to build new power generation drive this. Solar and wind are a trivial few now and by all real predictions into the future.