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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 3 points 1 day ago

What if everyone woke up at about the same time and plugged in their toasters to make breakfast? ARMAGEDDON.

ICE cars grow in fields, that's just science.

The EV battery will wear out and cost eleventy million dollars to replace, and we have to throw all the old batteries in rivers.

EVs catch fire! no way gasoline could catch fire!

and finally, what happens if you give up on life and want to end it all? Can't die in a sealed garage with an EV running!