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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by runamok on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:08PM (#9997129)
A huge amount of energy in gasoline is wasted as heat. About 70%. Electric plants lose much less energy due to reusing the heat fairly efficiently. There are some losses due to power transmission there of course. Keep in mind some electricity that ends up in cars would/should come from renewable sources...

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml

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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by runamok on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:19PM (#9997276)
FYI the losses of different power plants vary greatly but are higher than I thought. http://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-compa...
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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by zaitcev on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:07PM (#10000239)
All is left for you is to learn why resistive losses on the order of about 30% are necessary for the (unbuffered) electric grid to function at all.
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