"Steve Firth" fresh in from kicking **** wrote in
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:23:29 +0100, Doctor Drivel wrote:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Steve Firth wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:01:57 GMT, John Stumbles wrote:

the effeciency of the electric vehicle is obviously going to be hugely
better than the IC vehicle).

Right up until the moment that you do the calculation correctly and
factor
in generation and transmission efficiencies.

When it turns out to be reamarkably similar.

Nope. The best of power generation and transmission equipment, localised
power stations and the picture is very different. EVs have the edge and
no
polluting of cities either, so worth doing just for that alone. Then as
time moves on the situation will get better in power generating equipment
and EVS. A win, win.

Thermodynamics,

Sad isn't it. He thinks he is a genius now. He got that word from a
dictionary you know.