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I want to check out that new restaurant but I can't drive there because my cable isn't long enough

Isn’t it inconvenient to change all 20,000 AA batteries?

You get replacement packs via DHL. It's a pain to install 3800 AA cells, let me tell ya...

This is why I exclusively drive wind-up cars.

true, but it would be more fun to skip all the steam business and shoot the batteries directly into the turbine blades

say that again?

I damn near lost it when I heard about Mustang EVs having fake vroom audio.

You take the battery out, wiggle it around, and put it back in. You’ve got a few more rounds at least when you that.

Dat is geen kunstmatig verschil. Een accumulator hoopt energie op en kan dus herladen worden. Dat veel mensen de accu van hun telefoon ook "batterij" noemen is een anglicisme.

Same in German - but there is one exeption, and thats the "Autobatterie". The starter batterie of a car is called a batterie, despite the fact that its rechargeable.

We did! At least a half dozen before I chatted to her.

She can't know the real truth. The magic smoke repackers would have my thumbs.

What? Does anyone really say that? 😅😆

Battery? I thought they had just really long extension cords. Isn't that what a "range extender" is?

We're talking about ladies on their 40s in central Mexico during the 80s :D, I bet you they though for a while that electricity came from some magical tree :D

Slowly* rechargeable. If you can do at home is not a problem. If you need to wait half an hour or more every time you charge, it is.

Why are the comics that get posted here always like 2 or so behind the most recently posted one?

Please do. Because people trying to convince me that stopping at fuel stores every week is normal is really funny. They will retort with a gotcha about how charging every day is absurd. I usually then ask how often they charge their phone.

Take you’re damn 🌟

I live in Georgia. Work in Atlanta, but live in the suburbs. Georgia has a lot of clueless folks. But also a lot of progressive folks. It should really be two states.

A valid concern. There are many places to charge, but if you cannot charge where you park, EV is a bad option for you right now. But there are more charging than just at home. You can charge at work or a place you visit once a week. But apartments are surprisingly often open to dedicated parking.

Did this character also believe that chocolate milk came from brown cows?

That was my first thought as well

with oil prices jumping up, theres gonna be a renewed interest in evs

Back when they promised nuclear-powered cars, given how fast the things rusted then, the single-use car was almost on the brink of existing.

Even better, those are *self* charging!

Where do you think the power comes from to charge your swank EV? Coal? Nuclear? Wotta sham.

duh, you just swap out the little AAA batteries

I'd get a petrol car. But what happens if the tank runs empty?

this is the 15th comic whose strip number is a permutation of the first four natural numbers 9 remain

“I would never get an automobile! Shute they sound great, but what do you do if they run out of fuel?” “Horse” -> “Feed” “Legs” -> “Food” Are these people expecting transportation engineering to bypass thermodynamics? 😜

Now there are far better EVs than elons ..he’s going down plug hole 🕳️ & that’s a great place for him pedos down the drain

In Japan, at the height of the Nintendo DS popularity, it was outselling every other single game system combined. A joke at the time was "Does Japan know the system is rechargeable?"

“How do you recharge it if you lose power!” Well it’s unlikely the whole area lost power so I just go to a local DC charger. Let’s say a region wide blackout happens, then I can get a generator that can run on gas or propane. So I am still in a better situation than an ICE car.

I'm in the process of applying to new apartments, so that's definitely a no. It sounds nice if you own a house, though.

If I anchor it in the right orientation, it will prevent the sun that's charging my battery from reflecting onto the telly or heating the lounge up too much during the day. And it might give the birdies something to laugh about.

If/when I own a home, I'll take that under advisement

This is actually quite annoying for a native German speaker learning English. In German "Batterie" means "one-time use battery" and something you can recharge is always an "Akku" (short for "Akkumulator").

In the time of filament lights, that could not be done. If said person has not tried a dynamo light after the LED revolution in the '90's, and does not have an interest in electronics, they were stating information that was true to the best of their knowledge.

🙄

I imagine you just need to wait until a thunderstorm.

This is exactly like a gasoline car, but currently (due to battery design limits) it is worse on an electric vehicle.

I'm calling internal combustion engines acoustics from now on.

@mjelectriz.bsky.social

I used to know someone who would buy memory cards for his camera and then buy new ones whenever they filled up, like it was film.

You just have to plan your trips so the power cord doesn't get tangled. (Kidding. <3 my Bolt)

Triple-As; that’s what this truck is for. (That, and emergency repair of my DVD remote.)

This reminds me about a certain Technology Connections video, and is almost too true to be funny.

We often call non-electric bicycles "acoustic bikes", because they are not amplified and all power comes from authentic resources. To call combustion cars "acoustic", however, would be sheer blasphemy.

Acoustic vehicle = bike with cards in the spokes

But the worst part was the noise and vibration. And the engine switches state at every stoplight, so you can’t ever get used to it and filter it out - it intrudes on your consciousness continuously. Combustion-based cars really *are* acoustic vehicles. We are never going back.

The real joke is in the alt text this time. We need a tracker of how often the alt text is better than the main strip!

attn: @robcruickshank.bsky.social shots fired

You laugh, but one time I ran out of petrol. Who's silly now? I will not be taking comments at this time.