xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas - eviltoast
Electric vs Gas
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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.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    514·
    5 months ago

    You’re moving goalposts. Electric motors are cheaper. The end.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      116·
      5 months ago

      The motor yes. But an electric car does not move with a motor only.

      By just calculating the motor we are making up cost comparisons that do not reflect the actual cost of the car.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
        411·
        5 months ago

        Are you having trouble understanding the English language? The OP clearly stated the following:

        Gas engines are cheaper

        Which is patently false.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            23·
            5 months ago

            What does EV and ICE have to do with comparing electric motors to gas motors?

            • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
              53·
              5 months ago

              Either they are priced higher or they aren’t. They are priced higher and as such I won’t be buying one anytime soon. Not until they are a decade old on their original batteries.

              • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
                110·
                5 months ago

                Do you also have English language comprehension issues?

                • homicidalrobot@lemm.eeEnglish
                  3·
                  4 months ago

                  Reddit moment. You’re right, but you let this guy frustrate you into responding to the same nonsense multiple times in a row, and some people thought you were being mean.

                • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
                  42·
                  5 months ago

                  Gas engines are cheaper

                  Yeah, I understand perfectly that you’re hilariously wrong. My car is paid off. It’s just maintenance at this point. How is that going to be more expensive than buying an EV?

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          57·
          5 months ago

          I think you are having trouble understanding the English language. Most people have heard of a thing called context.

          “A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”

          Now as we are describing car types one with a gas and one with an electric engine, and comparing their prices, maybe put the LLM context tokens slightly higher before responding.