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.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦English
    -6•5 months ago

    Let’s not forget that EVs are heavier than their ICE equivalent classes of vehicle, meaning they use more energy. Which is a problem because a) they store ever so much less energy, and b) they’re ever so much less energy-efficient. So you need more energy to move them, and charging inefficiency mounts on top of that, but hey, at least you have shorter range!

    EVs are not what is going to save the environment. Indeed depending on your source of electricity (most of the world still uses fossil fuels to generate electricity, recall!) you could well be making things worse by switching to an EV.

    You know what will save the environment? Ending personal automobile ownership and instead beefing up public transportation.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•5 months ago

      This is just incorrect. Lol. While I agree with the ending. EV aren’t the solution to climate change. EVs are a lot cleaner than ICE and use less energy.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 months ago

      EVs do not use more energy than gasoline cars, that’s nonsense. The best ICE engine is ~40% efficient plus the losses from braking. Battery electric is closer to 80%. They are only around 10-15% heavier.