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Thanks to regenerative braking, a Tesla gets the equivalent of 120 mpg, much better than any ICE car.

In fact the energy used in refining gasoline to drive an ICE car is a given distance approximately the same as the energy to drive an electric car the same. Which means that before you've accounted for turning the ICE car on, the electric car has already arrived at its destination.



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