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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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[–] PixTupy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

With point 2 you can now use a real life case. Last year the Iberian peninsula had a blackout that lasted more than a day. The combustion engine cars could not pump petrol because guess what: pumps need electricity.