EV Charge Dollars...and common sense
With the help of ChatGPT
Electric Cars WERE expensive.
Electric Cars WERE expensive.
It's the cost of batteries! Chart is for complete battery pack.
Electric Cars WERE expensive.
Electric Cars WERE expensive.
Electric Cars WERE expensive.
It's the cost of batteries! What else can you buy now for a tenth what it cost ten years ago?
Efficiency
Eat 2 and toss 10
Pay for a dozen eggs, eat two...
and compost the rest? Duh!
150-year-old tech
The problem is you just can't make it much better. The thermodynamics, the physics, won't let you turn any more of that gasoline flame into motion. Even in the ideal theoretical engine, the one of engineers' fiction, 2/3 of the heat is just waste. Like every other kind of waste, something nasty to get rid of.
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The EV doesn't waste nearly as much. In actual real-life use an ICE vehicle produces something of value, movement and comfort with about 20% efficiency. 80% of the energy is wasted. For an EV, 80% useful, 20% waste.
Imagine this conversation. "Hey Kids. I brought doughnuts. We'll trash ten and eat two. What you think?"