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by cs702 1053 days ago
* More reliable: They're much simpler and have many fewer moving parts.

* Lower maintenance: There's no need to keep a complicated engine with lots of moving parts properly lubricated.

* Much quieter: No sound, even when accelerating like a race car.

* More pleasant: You never again have to pump smelly, poisonous, explosive liquids.

* More storage: Two trunks!

* Better performance: Faster acceleration, smoother driving, better handling -- "grips the road" (most of the weight is underneath).

I could keep going...

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> * Much quieter: No sound, even when accelerating like a race car.

It's funny but people actually complain that EVs are noisy because without the droning white noise of ICE you end up hearing everything else going on.

Its like 100F outside every day here these days. I've had so many people say "wait I thought you said its electric why can I still hear it?" when its just the AC running.

Like, yeah, its 100F outside, the condenser coil still has a fan on it and is trying to reject a lot of heat and there's still a compressor churning away.