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Yeah, it's quite clearly wrong when you realize that the batteries would never be able to deliver 50GWh in the first place.

And if they could, in order to charge it up, the battery would have to consume the entire output of the world's largest power station, the Three Gorges Dam, for more than two hours. (Three Gorges Dam outputs 22.5GW

And would need about 750,000 of the best Level 3 DC fast chargers connected simultaneously.

And 0.01% inefficiency in transfer would melt the car (and the road, and...)

The video shows max power of around 1.3MW for like 10s. That's enough to get the right ballpark for the kinetic energy.

I did based on 88 gigawatts being enough to send the vehicle backwards through time.

Great Scott!

Maybe the GP assumed 410km/sec instead of 410kph.