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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
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        11 个月前

        That’s an infrastructure problem you can help solve and regardless going on long trips for most people is 100% optional.

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      11 个月前

      That would become a 15+ hour trip then…

      Edit: On further investigation, it’s also not significantly cheaper than flying, and is much more expensive than fuel for driving.

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        11 个月前

        But much better for the environment, sometimes others matter more and when more people use rail it’s more likely our country will catch up and build hyper train networks.

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        Sadly, yes. I live in Germany, and here you need a BahnCard50 (or better) for the train to be cheaper than the gas for driving.