Gas Mileage - Tips on converting a car - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Because it takes energy to move a car (or any other object), and the heavier the electric car the more batteries that will be necessary to move it. With gasoline you can fill an airplane tank and fly it to another continent - that is how potent gasoline is (and yes, I’m aware that airplanes use a special kind of gasoline and not the kind we get at gas stations). Did you know that about 75% of the energy contained in gasoline is wasted in the form of heat because the Internal Combustion Engine is very inneficient at converting at transfering the energy contained in gasoline to the wheels of a car. I hope that more and more people choose to convert gasoline cars to electric so they can use electricity instead of gasoline, at least until there’s a wide variety of new EVs to choose from. The new EV revolution likely will have people driving smaller cars at first - at least until battery technology improves to a point where we get higher energy density batteries - more energy and smaller size. read more

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