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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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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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  • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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    gas stations don’t work in a blackout,

    …do US statioms not have their own generators?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Nope. Even some US hospitals don’t have backup generators.

    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      How are you going to fill those generators if the pump has no power?

      Checkmate atheists

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      No idea about the US, but not in Europe. It was a major problem with the last blackout in Spain and Portugal.

      • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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        I am asking because I worked in gas station in Poland and we had backup generator. xD

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