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      07-02-2020, 12:46 AM   #56
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sure but eventually advances trickle down to lower tiers...
You're not understanding what I said. There are physical limitations to all designs and materials. Based on your logic, in the past 120 years of the development of the internal combustion engine it's efficiency in converting the energy in gasoline (or diesel) should be near 99%. It's not of course, because it's not physically possible. To get another, say 75% more efficiency from ICE makes it unaffordable to use as a power source.
Well not quite. Ice will never be very efficient about 40% is lost due to heat.

And over the 100 years or so, they did get quite more efficient.

But the point is electric cars are in their infancy and battery technology, capacity, discharge rate etc should increase much faster than improvements of ices
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