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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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

And then you have to convince all, or at least most, of the manufacturers to do that in order for network effects to help the process.

Yes, that is how standardization works.

Since we’ve had to do a lot before manufactures settled on a plug design, we’re not likely to do the same for batteries.

Unless it's regulated for them to do so. Time for the EU to step up.