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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/xkcd

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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] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this a joke I'm not getting, or just a statement?

[–] Desistance 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Read it closely. It's making fun of petrol heads who try to justify keeping gas engines. Electric power plants are way more efficient, generates more torque and horsepower in a smaller package.

Then scroll this thread and you see all the same people doing the same thing.

[–] MeanEYE 0 points 6 months ago

Only problem is getting dense enough power storage.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, all those poors that can't afford an electric car are pieces of shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Literally no one said that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Read it again, slowly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, that did it. Thanks !