I know it's become quite common, but I still think of it as a miracle of technology:

With our internal combustion engine car, someone on the other side of the world has to drill into the ground, often under the sea, pump the oil into a tanker that has to take it halfway around the world to a terminal where it is pumped into a pipeline that takes it halfway across the continent to a refinery where it has to be processed so that a truck can come and take it halfway across the country to a gas station where I can fill it up.

With our #EV, I just plug it in and charge it with energy that comes right off our roof. I can easily extend the range by 200 km on a sunny day. The energy transport distance: tens of thousands of km vs. 10 meters.

#electronicvehicle #emobility

in reply to Jan Petrus

@jan_petrus yeah, with energy from the grid the difference is not so big, there is still a significant difference. The vast majority of electricity is produced in our country. Even the coal-based electricity, which is the dirtiest from our mix, has much shorter transportation distances. The plants are usually very close to the mines. Nuclear fuel is sourced outside of our country or even continent, but it is also a much smaller volume of mass.