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[โ€“] Fthisguy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Electric cars run on outsourceed explosions.

[โ€“] Shikadi@wirebase.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends where their electricity comes from :trollface:

[โ€“] Fthisguy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh most energy on earth can find it's source from a star or supernova, so close enough for me. Even ice cars are solar powered.

[โ€“] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I mean if you want to get right down to it, literally everything that does work is solar-powered.

The universe's explosions!

While they can it's unlikely, not all burning of stuff is an explosion, and not all electricity is made with burning stuff.

If you are charging up your Tesla with a generator, maybe, but where fossil fuels are burned in powerplants it's incredibly unlikely that it's an explosion in an internal combustion engine. Generally it's a big fire that heats water to steam.