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One of the wild things about car energy use is that the waste heat alone from driving one car at 70 mph (at 25 mpg) is enough to heat 10 smallish houses on a freezing cold day (25k BTU/hr).
(Roughly 110 km/hr, 10 l/100km, and 7.5 kW)
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