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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The motor yes. But an electric car does not move with a motor only.

By just calculating the motor we are making up cost comparisons that do not reflect the actual cost of the car.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you having trouble understanding the English language? The OP clearly stated the following:

Gas engines are cheaper

Which is patently false.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Then why are EVs priced higher than ICE?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What does EV and ICE have to do with comparing electric motors to gas motors?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For other reasons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Either they are priced higher or they aren't. They are priced higher and as such I won't be buying one anytime soon. Not until they are a decade old on their original batteries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do you also have English language comprehension issues?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Gas engines are cheaper

Yeah, I understand perfectly that you're hilariously wrong. My car is paid off. It's just maintenance at this point. How is that going to be more expensive than buying an EV?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Go back to school.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Reddit moment. You're right, but you let this guy frustrate you into responding to the same nonsense multiple times in a row, and some people thought you were being mean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think you are having trouble understanding the English language. Most people have heard of a thing called context.

“A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”

Now as we are describing car types one with a gas and one with an electric engine, and comparing their prices, maybe put the LLM context tokens slightly higher before responding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, the OP didn't say a word about cars. Learn to read please.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Once again you appear incapable of understanding context. The explain XKCD article might be of help.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2948:_Electric_vs_Gas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Learn to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago