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My grandmother's first car, in 1912, was an electric. She got a Model T Ford in 1914, because the electric car wouldn't start in winter. The Model T had an "Armstrong starter" - a hand crank. She'd have to get a pan of coals from the stove and put it under the engine to warm up the oil enough so that she could turn the crank, one full turn to get gas in the cylinders, then a quick quarter turn to get it started, followed by quickly pulling out the crank. But it did start. The electric cars of today have the same problem, there's a reason people dumped electric cars...

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If EVs are so great, why hasn't the federal government's entire fleet of IC vehicles been replaced by EVs?

General rule of thumb: You first, jackass.

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