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.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    106·
    5 months ago

    The EV motors are cheaper but we need to include the battery. An empty gas tank does not cost much. An uncharged car battery is pretty expensive.

    • 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·
                    5 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.