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It doesn’t actually take that much energy to move a 4000 lb vehicle. 15,000 miles per year * 1 kWh / 4 miles ~= 10.3 kWh per day ~= 430 watts 24/7. Few loads are 24/7 but a single crypto mining PC can easily use several times that.


And if you solar charge your car it basically doesn’t matter anyway. You can charge at peak production times so it’s extremely efficient for the grid.

We also have to consider that bikes aren’t super efficient either.


I got 15,000 miles * 1.344 kWh/mile = 20,160 kWh or 55 kWh / day


Most EVs are 0.2-0.4 kWh/mi.


Several ~4k lb EV’s get ~400 mile of range on a 100 kWh battery pack that’s 0.25 kWh/mile or 1 kWh / 4 miles.

The some EV’s like the Hummer EV are much worse, but that is also ~9,000 pounds fully loaded.




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