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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles (imgs.xkcd.com)

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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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Gas won out due to the fact that it’s energy density was so much higher compared to batteries of the time

Gas won out because US found huge reserves of oil and it was 3 cents a barrel . Ford actually planned for his model T to run on ethanol, which could be made free on any farm, but Standard Oil made sure that would never happen.