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You'll Need 286 Pounds of Coal to Fuel That Electric Road Trip - Bloomberg

New Yorkers looking to escape the winter chill by driving to Daytona Beach, Florida, would use about 40 gallons of gasoline to traverse the 1,000 miles in a Chevrolet Impala.

I've never understood why people don't get that it also takes power, fossil fueled power in most cases, to power electric cars. It is not "clean energy."