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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] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i think you may have missed the joke if you read it too fast

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No I get it. Electric cars are definitely cool and have advantages, but also have some disadvantages that this just kind of ignores to make a gotcha moment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you expecting a joke to actually discuss both sides of a topic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I suppose that's a good point. I just feel like XKCD is usually a bit more nuanced than this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where is the xkcd talking about cars?

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

What else would it be referring to lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An electric motor and gas engine. It's the first line.

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

And what are the most common applications for those? People don't just have motors sitting around attached to nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Generators, fans, boats, planes, lawnmowers (sit on and push), strimmers, powered dumpers, diggers etc etc. if you Google it you'll probably find more.