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[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"World's largest EV"

Blatantly untrue. Larger EVs have been in use for more than a century at this point in the form of EMU trains.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] timduncant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Take that Australia!

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah we're proper fucked tbh

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It was part of the treaty. That and the Great Dingo Barrier.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

We truly are lost...

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll pick up the pedantic torch. Trains are made of train cars, I'd argue each one is a separate car or vehicle even though they're strapped together.

I feel like The ISS ticks a lot of the boxes for a vehicle though, how big is that?

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure, but quite often in EMUs the cars come in sets that can't operate disconnected from each other, so I'd argue that they still comprise a single vehicle.

~~I'd argue that the ISS, due to lacking means of propulsion (unless you count explosive decompression) is not a vehicle.~~

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The ISS has two different propulsion systems and has used them to avoid debris. I don't think that it has enough power to leave orbit and reach greater altitude.

In that case yeah, I guess it is a vehicle.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This will conversation evolve into two things: are hotdogs and tacos sammiches, and we becoming crabs.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

POPTARTS are Calzones. Calzones are Pizzas. Pizzas are Open-Face Sandwiches!

[–] wieson 7 points 1 week ago

Bagger 288 is also electrically driven. Even if it is connected by cable to a nearby powerplant.