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1) EV’s are more efficient. It’s already more efficient to burn the gasoline in a power plant to power your EV. Yes, transmission has losses, but gas cars are an atrocious 15-20% efficient. (Not that we should do this)

2) even if EVs don’t cut the transportation energy as much as we wish, they allow the entire fleet to smoothly transition to climate-friendly energy.

I love bikes. I have an e-bike that is 10x as efficient as an EV. But the public simply isn’t willing to switch to public transit and bikes. Even if they were, a fleet of gas-powered busses will probably be worse for the climate than wind-powered EVs.

P.S. microplastics are a real problem, but if you believe climate change is an existential threat, microplastics are not a very good reason to argue against EVs.

[crazygringo]

> Yes, transmission has losses, but gas cars are an atrocious 15-20% efficient

I thought you had to be exaggerating, but I just looked it up and you're right.

Holy moly. I'm genuinely surprised this isn't more widespread knowledge. I never hear it come up in most conversations around the pros and cons of EV's.