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by mcv 924 days ago
Do you have a source for the 10-20%? ICEs are incredibly inefficient, and I wouldn't be surprised if the grid was twice as efficient, although I too have no source to back it up.
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> The total WTW efficiency of gasoline ICEV ranges between 11-27 %,

> diesel ICEV ranges from 25 % to 37 %

> The EV fed by a natural gas power plant shows the highest WTW efficiency which ranges from 13 % to 31 %

> While the EV supplied by coal-fired and diesel power plants have approximately the same WTW efficiency ranging between 13 % to 27 % and 12 % to 25 %, respectively

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SJRUE..24..669A/abstra...