Also, don't forget, the heating inside your car in winter comes from the battery on an EV. Heated electric seats, heated steering wheel, defrost, all take power. In a gasoline-powered car, you get defrost and cabin heating for free, because an internal combustion engine gives off large amounts of waste heat, which can be used in winter to heat the vehicle.
It's not "free" in an ICE , it's just allowed to be used where normally it's wasted extremely inefficiently.
An electric car is extremely efficient. Albeit, the batteries weigh too much and charge too slowly to be very functional.
Not only do you get to recycle some of that waste heat, you also can't use it all. Drive 30 minutes down the road and you'll be sweating your balls off.
Everything that doesn't work towards moving the car forward but requires electricity in an an electric vehicle lowers the range. Moving the power windows, using navigation, A/C, heat, stereo (louder is worse), heater, seats, etc. They somehow took MPG averages of "we went 55mph down the highway with no wind on a perfectly flat and straight stretch of road and got 30mpg" and ramped them up to absurdity with electric car range. And one of the worst parts is that governments let them lie about it because they'd rather let them sell "zero emission" electric cars that deceive everyone and be green.
You aren't wrong, but ALL vehicle manufacturers are lying sacks of shit when it comes to efficiency.
I have a hybrid, and before that I had a value brand stick shift. Neither of them came within 25 percent of claimed economy
I mean what is using a STDERR of 5 between friends, amirite?
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