"Tim Wescott" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:51:38 -0700, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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While I haven't seen power budgets, if an electric car manages to take
80% of the energy that came in on the charging plug and turns it into
forward motion, I'd be surprised.


http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf

Boy, for someone who abjures people to read, it's sure interesting that
you went and responded to a statement about the energy efficiency of a
system with a document that says nothing about the energy efficiency of
the system in question.

Unless I missed it, in which case you can correct me by pointing out
where that document says how many Joules* you get out of the car for
every 1kJ that you put in?

* People who know what the word "energy" means knows that it's measured
in Joules, in case your reading ability only extends to understanding
documents written by bureaucrats for "consumers"**



If you want to compare Joules, be my guest--pretty sure everything you would need in order to be able do that is supplied in the above paper.