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To: TimF who wrote (74429)	1/25/2017 8:13:33 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

It's very easy to calculate. The one big advantage pure electrics have is their motor maintains it's high efficiency (above 90%) thru it's entire output range. That's impossible for ICE's. Their efficiency drops as their percent of power output increases. Since ICE's are "heat" engines their efficiency is a fraction of an electric motor. ICE's throw away the majority of their energy input as heat to the surrounding environment. Plus the pollution products of combustion!