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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some countries safety inspect vehicles annually.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

In Spain you have 4 or 5 years before the first safety inspection. And the then, if it's a van or bigger it's each 6 months and if it's a car, 1 year.

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