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by m463 2547 days ago
> To travel one kilometre by bike requires approximately 5-15 watt-hours (w-h) of energy, while the same distance requires 15-20 w-h by foot, 30-40 w-h by train, and over 400 w-h in a singly occupied car.

Since the rise in popularity of electric cars 400wh/km is actually quite high.

Most electric vehicles are rated city/highway 15/20kwh/100km (150 w-h/km / 200 w-h/km)

On this page:

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/13-model-3...

it shows the model 3 gets 143 Wh/km at 110 km/h

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In Germany about 2% of the cars are electric, half of those are hybrids. I think in the US it's similar.