Lol. Fabulous answer to the math, with nice humour! Unless the Gas industry learns how to make new Gas on the fly, Lion will continue to shine also because of the amazingly different ways that it's energy losses can be replenished (wind, water, sun, vibration...), even while it's doing its thing.
So, GP's comment of "develop the tech that seems impossible as the biggininng" (typo included) is the important part. It might be that in the future, because the motors and other moving parts become increasigly efficient (& are already much better than a combustion engine) then less energy is required for the same resulting work. Even more so, the ingenious ways that energy can be 'reharvested' to flow back into the system could in fact allow us to develop something that seems impossible...simply because we're harvesting energy and pouring it into our Lion dependant system better than Gas ever can.
> because the motors and other moving parts become increasigly efficient (& are already much better than a combustion engine) then less energy is required for the same resulting work
The resulting work is more important than the efficiency. Teslas have exceptionally low air drag, which is great for driving range.
However when you go from 80 to 90% system efficiency, you only increase range by 12%. Once youre at 99%, you really cant improve any more. 99% to 99.5% means the motor outputs half as much heat but goes hardly any farther.
You could make gasoline from the air. A bit inefficient, but if we somehow get to the fabled "free fusion" power plants, it could be a neat trick to have synthetic gas in pipelines flowing from fusion CO2 atmospheric scrubbers.
You don't need fusion. PV works too; you just need a lot of it. Making liquid fuel from air is currently the only viable solution for carbon-neutral aircraft, which is why the military likes the idea.
So, GP's comment of "develop the tech that seems impossible as the biggininng" (typo included) is the important part. It might be that in the future, because the motors and other moving parts become increasigly efficient (& are already much better than a combustion engine) then less energy is required for the same resulting work. Even more so, the ingenious ways that energy can be 'reharvested' to flow back into the system could in fact allow us to develop something that seems impossible...simply because we're harvesting energy and pouring it into our Lion dependant system better than Gas ever can.