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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll get an electric when I can get a used one for around $5k and not have to worry about the battery going out and costing $20k.

The lie detector determined that... Was a lie!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not paying a potential $6k more after buying a used car.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While my sentence could be worded more clearly, that's a pretty bad reading of what I said.

My car is valued by KBB at ~6k in it's current state.

That current state includes a battery that was replaced under warranty 6 months ago, and is thus basically a brand-new battery, 9 years left on its warranty and everything.

So if something goes wrong with the battery and it isn't directly your fault: it gets replaced for free. The only 6k being spent is the original 6k on the car as a whole

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I gotcha, I was talking battery prices so I read it as battery prices. What do you have? A Leaf?