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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

1500 kW.

Does anyone in media know how to use the metric system?

I drive 10 million millimeters to work.

[–] elekitty@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

in this case, it's probably a deliberate choice, because chargers in the wild are generally commonly rated anywhere from 11-350 kW, keeping it in kW gives drivers who are used to seeing '## kW' an easier time comparing without having to do mental math.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Bigger numbers always sound more impressive. Many hair dryers also have a power rating of 1200W. Also some policy package costing 700 million somehow sounds more than 1.1 trillion.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Well I just walked 12 billion nanometres to the toilet.