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.

  • @AuxEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    In which world electric motors are more expensive than combustion engines?

    • @LinkerbaanEnglish
      4•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.

      • @AuxEnglish
        -9•5 months ago

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

        • @LinkerbaanEnglish
          5•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.

          • @AuxEnglish
            -7•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.

              • @AuxEnglish
                -7•5 months ago

                For other reasons.

                • Aniki 🌱🌿English
                  2•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.

                  • @AuxEnglish
                    -9•5 months ago

                    Do you also have English language comprehension issues?

            • @LinkerbaanEnglish
              -2•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.