Recent posts discussed the amount of matter equivalent to the energy need to accelerate a Toyota Corrola. Enen if my calculations are correct, which is doubtful, it is useless information. Obviously there is nothing in an automobile which can turn so small amount of matter into equivalent energy. This is done elsewhere in a nuclear reactor by the fission of radioactive isotopes. Even there, only a very small fraction of the mass becomes energy. The number of protons/neutrons remains the same. (This was true even in the atomic bomb.) To find out how much, you need to compare the atomic weight of the isotope to the total atomic weight of the decay products. [Way beyond me.]
Then there is a series of processes to convert heat to electricity and transmit to where it needs to be to charge the battery. There are energy losses along the way.
Oops! The Corolla is not an electric car.
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