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.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    12 days ago

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

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      12 days 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
        32·
        12 days ago

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

        Gas engines are cheaper

        Which is patently false.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 days 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.