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by imtringued 2601 days ago
Take a look at the primary energy consumption here in this chart [0]. As you can see despite 45% of electricity coming from renewables it's still only 14% of the total energy consumption. Just the mineral oil consumption alone contributes 2.5 times more energy than renewables. This looks bad at first glance except you have to consider that the efficiency of ICE cars is extremely low, somewhere around 25% or even less depending on the fuel. Electric motors will massively reduce the total amount of energy needed for transport no matter what the source of energy is.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...