content: Centralized energy production is much more efficient than small scale ICE. There are many reasons to argue against current electric vehicles but this isn't one of them. It's actually a big EV advantage. Especially once you acknowledge that a fair amount of it comes from NG and nuclear. On average, nuclear is 20% of electric generation. On average, NG is 32%. Combined, that means half of the charge into an electric vehicle is from NG and nuclear. Roughly another 10% comes from other sources. Which means coal electric makes up less than ~40% of the electric charge into an EV.