Electric vs Gas
xkcd.com

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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.

  • Sizzler@slrpnk.netEnglish
    32·
    6 months ago

    Charged at home and never needed to stop. Ten mins down the road already. Go shout at clouds old man.

    • rockstarmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      So your electric car has more range than a similarly sized gas car? Unlikely.

      Given both vehicles start at “full”, drive until you have low range left. Now talk about convenience of filling up in the middle of nowhere, or when in a hurry.

      Is this use case common for everyone? Definitely not, but I run into it a few times a month.

      • Sizzler@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        So you admit you are talking about edge cases. This is why no-one cares what you think. You are arguing for slower, less efficient, more polluting vehicles just cos it’ll save a few minutes on a long run. Get outta here. Jokes.

        • rockstarmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’m talking about millions of occurrences of this edge case a day.

          I’m not sure what you’re trying to fight. I said multiple times that we should continue to encourage and expand our use of electric vehicles. But to blindly fanboy electric cars without being able to honestly admit that we have some improvements to make just makes you stupid and smug.

          • Sizzler@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            https://youtu.be/vz4qnwNKxt4?si=

            They don’t mention it in the video because they could get in trouble but best estimates for how long they had been driving 360 miles for is 5 hours and on the Porsche it shows a drive time of ten hours. That’s well into take a proper break from driving time. 45mins every 4.5hrs for a total of 9 is considered safe with some extra hour extensions.