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

submitted 3 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The one thing stopping me is seeing how they fare long term with the overwhelming amount of electronics added to the cars.

Hopefully car manufacturers goes a different direction as electronic and appliances company went. Everyone I know that are into EVs went through 2 or 3 different one in the time I've owned my ICE car (~10 years). Most because of their lease ending and wanting the absolute newest but others due to battery issues making the car a total loss due to replacement cost.

[–] Asifall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I mean that’s not really a problem specific to EVs. But yeah I also drive an aging car because I don’t want one with 10x more failure points.

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