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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
Yeah, a general “electric vs. gas” comparison which elides the two big disadvantages of electric in familiar applications (which aren’t to be found in the motor) seems slightly subpar for xkcd. It’s valid from a certain narrow engineering perspective but not too helpful if what you’re thinking about is motorcycles.
If fossil fuels were so easy to give up we’d have done it by now.