Jeff Wilson

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How Much Electricity Does It Take To Replace Gasoline?

This was one of the major questions burning in my mind as I was doing research for The Manhattan Project of 2009. If we took every gasoline-powered car, truck, and SUV and replaced their powertrain with an electric powertrain, how much electricity would it take to totally replace gasoline? This is easy to figure out. In the U.S., we use 142 billion gallons of gasoline per year. Each gallon of gasoline contains about 36.6 kilowatt-hours of energy. So, the total energy consumed by gasoline-powe… Continue

Added by Jeff Wilson on December 14, 2008 at 2:52pm — 10 Comments

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