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

submitted 5 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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[–] shield_gengar 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because it's currently easier to find a gas station than a charger that will do that performance. Now I'm willing to wait 8 hrs for 10%, but others certainly aren't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You must live in a red state or the middle of nowhere. It's easy to find chargers everywhere I've been.

[–] shield_gengar 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, my point. I have to charge my car at home because of charging stations are either far, or Tesla owners park in them to do shopping.

Saying I live somewhere shit doesn't disprove my point that gas is more readily available.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah because the conservative government of those areas is actively suppressing them from being built.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

My parents live in the sticks, in a red state, and I have no problem finding charging stations within twenty miles from them.