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Default More on electric cars.

In article
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harry wrote:
A battery is a fuel too. It is chemical energy. It converts chemical
energy to electricity.


It *stores* energy, if you're talking about a rechargeable type. A dry
cell creates it.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, just converted from one form to
another.


And the efficiency of that conversion is all important.

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