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Electric Cars Are Pushing the Age of Oil to Extinction in China
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Yup, and that's ignoring the loss in transforming and transporting the energy across the grid, and in the chemistry of the battery itself through charges and discharges. Energy density of batteries is also a fraction of that of petrol, so every EV is also carrying around a lot of extra weight.