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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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[-] sour@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Where is the xkcd talking about cars?

[-] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 months ago

What else would it be referring to lmao

[-] Oddbin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

An electric motor and gas engine. It's the first line.

[-] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 months ago

And what are the most common applications for those? People don't just have motors sitting around attached to nothing.

[-] Oddbin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Generators, fans, boats, planes, lawnmowers (sit on and push), strimmers, powered dumpers, diggers etc etc. if you Google it you'll probably find more.

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