Elon Musk: "You have enough electricity to power all the cars in the country if you stop refining gasoline"

Elon Musk in Chris Paine's Revenge of the Electric Car
Credit: Chris Paine/ Revenge of the Electric Car/ Business Insider

"You take an average of 5 kilowatt hours to refine [one gallon of] gasoline, something like the Model S can go 20 miles on 5 kilowatt hours."

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-and-chris-paine-explain-how-the-electric-car-got-its-revenge-2011-10

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