• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    i drive an electric car. so if i connect my phone to the car’s usb,the whole car ends up being the phone battery. So, two birds, one stone

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com
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      2 months ago

      Fuel for me

      It’s quite expensive in my country, and my motorbike requires 98 octane

      I’d really like an electric motorbike, but there’s nobody really making anything that suits me at the moment

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I can charge a phone on the car’s accessory circuit and charge the car battery if there’s gasoline in the tank, so that seems like that’d be more useful.

  • theblips@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Fuel is just free ticket to being a multimillionaire, way easier to extract energy from the tank than from the phone

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Phone battery of course. The phone is something I use every day and it’s annoying having to charge it constantly. In a car I don’t mind stopping to get fuel occasionally, it’s an excuse for a break. I only drive for fun and roadtrips so I don’t see any huge savings. Unless I can sell the fuel from the bottomless fuel tank, then I’ll take that option.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I could charge my phone for a year for the same cost as filling my tank once. I’m taking the gas 100% of the time.

    That’s without applying any workarounds to the posted rules like siphoning gas from your vehicle into a generator and running my house off a gas powered generator because there are no current parameters against it or restricting how many times you can fill up your tank for free.

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    Ignoring the loophole of using petrol to generate electricity. I can run my house on generators etc.

    I don’t mind charging my phone everyday. Managing my motorcycle’s energy is a right pain however. Do I have enough petrol for the trip/day/week, I just want to go home but I have to find a station, is there one on the way, do they have premium. My phone I plug in and let it sort it self out.

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        2 months ago

        There is, but that kicks the can (hehe) down the road. It’s not a big issue, I live where petrol is expensive but readily available. I set trip counters on the dash, I know roughly how many miles a full tank does and exactly how many miles since I last filled the bike.

        The convenience would be to never have to think about petrol again. That’s more than the convenience to never plugging my phone in again.