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With the evolution of batteries, it looks as though internal combustion engines will be relegated to some pretty narrow niches - if not supplanted entirely.

But there's something about them that EVs can never really replace, and it doesn't seem to even have a name. Internal Combustion Engines are "alive" in a way that electric motors can never be.

> That's just how you perceive it, human

Don't care. It's our world, technology should exist on our terms.

Even if electric motors and batteries win every race, (video) is something they can never really do (unless through a pathetic bunch of fake technological theater).
Yes, and then it's over - forever if the government wants it that way, because you can't produce your own gasoline.
With solar you can keep on driving locally until your car or solar array breaks.

@quercus @ReadyKilowatt @cjd hypothetical scenario: russia attacks ukraine and you are a civilian man trying to get out while there still is enough chaos and you stand a chance to cross the border without getting send to the meat grinder to die for corrupt politicians. you have to go some hundred kilometers in one go though.

get 2-3 jerrycans, fill them up, fill up the tank, vs. charging for an hour half the way, provided that part of the net didn't go out in the chaos.

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