I believe a gallon of gasoline is around 44KWh of energy. You can work it out from that.
It’s also why people who are stuck in the ICE age don’t understand the overall energy benefit of BEVs.
Edit
Ok. Looked it up and I’m not accurate. It’s more like 36KWh/gal but the point is the same
Liquid fuels [kg/l] [kg/gal] [kWh/kg] [MJ/kg]
Acetone 0.787 2.979 8.83 31.8
Butane 0.601 3.065 13.64 49.1
Butanol 0.810 10.36 37.3
Diesel fuel* 0.846 3.202 12.67 45.6
Dimethyl ether (DME) 0.665 2.518 8.81 31.7
Ethane 0.572 2.165 14.42 51.9
Ethanol (100%) 0.789 2.987 8.25 29.7
Diethyl ether (ether) 0.716 2.710 11.94 43.0
Gasoline (petrol)* 0.737 2.790 12.89 46.4
Last edited by: car4play on Sun 20 Feb 22 at 09:36
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