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

EVs generally have adapters that allow you to plug into a standard home outlet, it's just significantly slower to charge to full due to the lower amperages. And even if you only have 1 plug in your garage, it's not hard or expensive to add more.

The only real hurdle for that is if you rent a house and aren't allowed to make those easy changes

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

And even if you only have 1 plug in your garage, it's not hard or expensive to add more.

Yeah this is losing the plot. I believe they're talking about the tens of millions of Americans who don't have private garages.