Sustainability by numbers | Hannah Ritchie
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Going to 100% electric cars would increase electricity demand by around one-quarter .
Moving all road transport to electric would increase it by around 40% .
Electric vehicles are 3.5 to 4 times as efficient as gasoline equivalents.
Great Britain currently uses the equivalent of 445 TWh from petrol and diesel road transport.
But, we don’t need to produce the equivalent amount of low-carbon energy.
To get 118 TWh out, we’d need to put 262 TWh in.
Most countries do not run on 100% coal or gas, so this is an extreme case.
Electric vehicles are still more efficient than petrol and diesel.
The Tesla Model 3 uses just 144 Wh per kilometre.
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