Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

Think about this.* That waste heat wasn't free.* It's unused energy. That
means you've had to put much more potential into the gasoline engine to
get what you need.* With electric, less energy is required. Of course,
the heat is nice when it's cold.* Still, from an energy perspective, the
gasoline engine is rather wasteful.

Try tracing the power from the battery in the car all the way back
to it's origination.* Take all the "efficiencies" into consideration.
Now tell me how wasteful the gasoline engine really is.

The problem is not efficient of the engine is as such. The problem is
that it in most cases is burning fosile fules and releasing CO2 that
was "in the loop" millions of years ago.

Yet another subject shift.

Much of our electricity comes from burning coal or natural gas, BTW.

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