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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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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is this a joke I'm not getting, or just a statement?

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Read it closely. It's making fun of petrol heads who try to justify keeping gas engines. Electric power plants are way more efficient, generates more torque and horsepower in a smaller package.

Then scroll this thread and you see all the same people doing the same thing.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Only problem is getting dense enough power storage.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, all those poors that can't afford an electric car are pieces of shit

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Literally no one said that

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Read it again, slowly.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, that did it. Thanks !