I find the electric car argument not entirely true due to the efficiencies of the electric motor. Producing the power in a plant and then using it on an electric motor is way more efficient than producing the power at the source in an ICE.
[1] In time, energy, money, infrastructure, maintenance, insurance, human health and life lost to accidents and pollution.
No, but the humans in them do.
Traffic and gridlock waste our time because cars are an incredibly inefficient way to transport people[1].
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[1] https://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-alm...
Numbers I've seen are 5 ~ 8kWh, that's 20-30 miles of electric driving.
Depending on your gasoline car's efficiency and exact kWh number above, the energy to even produce and deliver the gasoline is higher than actually driving an electric vehicle.
Significantly more losses in the manufacturing, refining, delivering, and distribution of gas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2018/08/19/myths-an...
The total system efficiency is what matters. As other posters mentioned, even diesels beat the efficiency of an EV when you measure well to wheel:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SJRUE..24..669A/abstra...
I always thought the difference was larger for a coal powered electric vehicle.
Even if the grid were entirely fueled by coal, 31% less energy would be needed to charge EVs than to fuel gasoline cars. If EVs were charged by natural gas, the total energy demand for highway transportation would fall by nearly half. Add in hydropower or other renewables, and the result gets even better, saving up to three-fourths of the energy currently used by gasoline-powered vehicles.