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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
Simple exercise if you want to disprove me:
Work out the average conspumption in joules of a car, then take 5% of mobile vehicles in alberta and calculater total kj or kwatts used.
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Here on the internet, the one making the absurd claim is the one who has to provide the proof.
-edit- And before you waste your time, your calculation doesn't take into account that vehicles don't run 24x7. What you actually need to do is calculate the average kj/hr consumption rate of a vehicle, find out the average number of hours vehicles are on the road, then divide that into the consumption rate to get the real use of power per hour.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the problem of peak power usage hours, which, in the case of electric cars, would probably involve charging said vehicles late at night when power usage is at its minimum by the simple expedient of timed chargers. Which, naturally, would be almost universally used and subsidized by the power companies because said late night power is much cheaper. And so, in summary, you don't know what you're talking about.