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Test drive of a petrol car

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Imagine a review of ICE if you've only driven an electric car. Might go something...

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(AndrusV)

Now imagine a review of a gasoline motor powered car if you have only driven electric powered…
So we sat in the car and pressed the START button. The car’s gasoline engine coughed to life and started to operate. One could hear the engine’s sound and the car’s whole body vibrated as if something was broken, but the seller assured us that everything was as it should. The car actually has an electric motor and a microscopically small battery, but they are only used to start the petrol engine – the electric motor does not drive the wheels. The petrol engine then uses a tank full of gasoline, a fossil liquid, to propel the car by exploding small drops of it. It is apparently the small explosions that you hear and feel when the engine is running. The petrol engine consists of literally hundreds of moving parts that must have tolerance of hundredths of a millimeter to function. We began to understand why it is car repair shops that sell the cars – they might hope for something to break in the car that they can mend?
(TeslaClubSweden)