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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)
submitted 5 months 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds good until you have to replace the battery. I want one of the rivian rts but they are still too pricy even used.

[–] sudoku@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you drive your cars for 300000 miles?

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My 2010 wagon has 180k and I can still take it to the mountains and not worry about finding a broken charge port on the way home.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How the hell would you break a charge port? If you managed that then no vehicle is safe.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, the charging station. Charging port I think would mean the port it plugs into on your car. Yeah, I guess that could be an issue, but it's not really something that needs to be considered by a consumer. The fact that you're much less likely to have mechanical issues I think more than makes up for the rare case of vandalism, which can happen to any piece of the infrastructure, for gas and electric.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago

How is being stranded with no way to charge your EV not a concern for owners?

And yes, potentially gas stations could be vandalized as well -- except they aren't, and charge stations are.