Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked
by martin_bech on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:24PM
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Why is this getting downvoted? I think its very relevant, that the cost of oil production at lower volume, could be a tipping point. Here en nothern europe, this is already effecting non profitable oildrillings, which are beeing closed, and new drillings beeing postponed or altogether cancelled.
Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked
by 08-15 on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:03PM
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> Electric cars are an order of magnitude more efficient than ICE cars.
Citation needed. (I don't think more than a factor of 3 is possible, in ideal circumstances.)
Re:Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked
by coredog64 on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:42PM
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The most efficient vehicles on the market today extract something like 40% of the energy from the fuel they burn. ICE installations can get to around 50%, but that's typically for very large CI engines. Absent comparing something like a top-fuel dragster, I think you're correct about a factor of 3.
Electric cars are an order of magnitude more efficient than ICE cars. The only thing keeping them from going mainstream is the existing industrial base. With growth now impossible in that sector, mainstream adoption is just around the corner.