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> Total cost of ownership is reduced significantly with BEVs

Is it? With the electricity prices what they are and sparse infrastructure I doubt BEVs have a lower cost of ownership. At least in Europe.

> oil infrastructure is obviously way less efficient

Not sure it's obvious. If anything, oil infra has been optimized to be as cost effective as possible. Remember Deepwater Horizon? They were extracting oil from 10 km under water still at competitive prices.

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Right, drilling oil from the ocean, then shipping it to a refinery then driving it to a station then putting it in your car is some how more efficient than a solar panel running electricity through an inverter into your car.

You'd be surprised.

Efficiency is rarely about how many steps it takes to get there.

And even taking into account all the steps that you call inefficient, ICE cars are still 20-50% cheaper to buy. And with electricity prices what they are ICE cars are probably the same, or even cheaper, to run.

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