▲ 839 ▼ xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles (imgs.xkcd.com) submitted 8 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [B] to c/xkcd@lemmy.world 265 comments fedilink hide all child comments xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles Title text: Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one. Transcript: Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/ explainxkcd for #3214
[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (4 children) gas stations don't work in a blackout, ...do US statioms not have their own generators? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago How are you going to fill those generators if the pump has no power? Checkmate atheists permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) No idea about the US, but not in Europe. It was a major problem with the last blackout in Spain and Portugal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I am asking because I worked in gas station in Poland and we had backup generator. xD permalink fedilink source parent [–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago Nope. Even some US hospitals don't have backup generators. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago How are you going to fill those generators if the pump has no power? Checkmate atheists permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) No idea about the US, but not in Europe. It was a major problem with the last blackout in Spain and Portugal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I am asking because I worked in gas station in Poland and we had backup generator. xD permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I am asking because I worked in gas station in Poland and we had backup generator. xD permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago Nope. Even some US hospitals don't have backup generators. permalink fedilink source parent