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Petrol burned in a car is energy, not electricity.



The fact that you can use combustion to generate electricity, means they are interchangeable. The other comment is probably more on point about conversion effeciency.


> that you can use combustion to generate electricity, means they are interchangeable

This is an accounting issue, not a question of thermodynamics.

Electricity typically refers to grid electric. We don’t count non plug-in hybrid electrical output as “electricity.” That’s how energy use can be stable while electrification increases.




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