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World's largest EV never has to be recharged (www.greencarreports.com)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"World's largest EV"

Blatantly untrue. Larger EVs have been in use for more than a century at this point in the form of EMU trains.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The emus have trains now?!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Take that Australia!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Yeah we're proper fucked tbh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

It was part of the treaty. That and the Great Dingo Barrier.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

We truly are lost...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'll pick up the pedantic torch. Trains are made of train cars, I'd argue each one is a separate car or vehicle even though they're strapped together.

I feel like The ISS ticks a lot of the boxes for a vehicle though, how big is that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sure, but quite often in EMUs the cars come in sets that can't operate disconnected from each other, so I'd argue that they still comprise a single vehicle.

~~I'd argue that the ISS, due to lacking means of propulsion (unless you count explosive decompression) is not a vehicle.~~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The ISS has two different propulsion systems and has used them to avoid debris. I don't think that it has enough power to leave orbit and reach greater altitude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

In that case yeah, I guess it is a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This will conversation evolve into two things: are hotdogs and tacos sammiches, and we becoming crabs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

POPTARTS are Calzones. Calzones are Pizzas. Pizzas are Open-Face Sandwiches!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Aka toast

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Bagger 288 is also electrically driven. Even if it is connected by cable to a nearby powerplant.