>>511100893
>You can either burn fuel to drive a car motor
>Or you can burn fuel to boil water and use the steam to drive a turbine and use the turbine to send a current down power lines and use that current to charge a battery and use that to drive a car
The second one is more efficient, hence why the world is switching to that.
Also, ICE is only 25% efficient at converting fuel into forward motion, whereas electric motors are 90% efficient.