Featured Apparently Gas Cars use Electricity too

Whoda thunk it. Well every PriusChatter here obviously.

Gas Cars Consume Much More Electricity Than People May Realize

I figure if "@Tideland Prius" can stoke discussion about EV versus Gas I'll sling some thought porn on it too.
So a German magazine "has calculated that, for every mile traveled in a legacy vehicle, you’re using about half as much electricity as you would to travel a mile in a pure EV." Most of that electricity is what is known as grey energy, energy embedded in a product, like that used by gas stations and the like. They therefore speculated that an EV would use that same electricity in a more efficient fashion.

 

Yup we have had discussions about this before of hidden costs, including "protection costs". I would also argue that the less gas you use, such as a hybrid and/or PHEV, this factor of a half would be reduced significantly. Haven't read the source article, but if they are estimating, say the average, mpg of 24 for new cars and trucks, maybe. But then a lot of people don't seem to have a problem with gassing up every 2 or 3 days. Definitely agree though that convenience store won't disappear, and in fact will get more numerous and bigger. If a customer stops in for gas and is there only 5 minutes, wouldn't more customers have to stop for longer periods to fill up and/or wait to fill up their EVs?