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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] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

Extremely rare XKCD L

Edit: downvote me all you want, it won't make electric cars charge any faster, have any more range, be any more affordable, work any better in the cold, or be any more fixable by their owners.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (7 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)

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.

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