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

submitted 2 weeks 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] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you admit you are talking about edge cases. This is why no-one cares what you think. You are arguing for slower, less efficient, more polluting vehicles just cos it'll save a few minutes on a long run. Get outta here. Jokes.

[–] rockstarmode 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm talking about millions of occurrences of this edge case a day.

I'm not sure what you're trying to fight. I said multiple times that we should continue to encourage and expand our use of electric vehicles. But to blindly fanboy electric cars without being able to honestly admit that we have some improvements to make just makes you stupid and smug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://youtu.be/vz4qnwNKxt4?si=

They don't mention it in the video because they could get in trouble but best estimates for how long they had been driving 360 miles for is 5 hours and on the Porsche it shows a drive time of ten hours. That's well into take a proper break from driving time. 45mins every 4.5hrs for a total of 9 is considered safe with some extra hour extensions.