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This doesn't look like a car nor a truck it's a combat vehicle. Seriously, who's impressed by Elon's shooting and steel ball demonstrations? In what kind of failed state do these Tesla customers live? With a tank hull for a frame and sharp edges all around this looks like a serious safety hazard for passengers and especially pedestrians outside the car.
Don't forget in this apocalypse you have reliable charging infrastructure
dont tell dale that gasoline goes bad in 3-6 months, ethanol blends in 4-6.
unless someone fires up an oil refinery no one's driving shit.
Wood gasification, people will be driving it'll just look like the Beverly hillbillies come to town rather than madmax.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
And yes you can run a car on poop.
Maybe a handful could cobble together a steam powered vehicle like they made during the early days of cars, and drive around at relatively low speed on anything that will burn?
We've been watching the Last Man On Earth and my family is getting sick of me pointing that out.
That show went downhill for me really fast.
Ya. Watching last night I was thinking about how funny the first season was.
That's not entirely true. I've fired up my bike with two year old gasoline in the tank, and larger quantities will last longer than the 3l that was left in my tank.
yes, there are some variables, and if you had old gasoline, adding fresh on top is 100％ the right hing to do. It dilutes it into the new, more combustable fuel
You're right about diluting it, but I didn't. I just fired it up with old gas.
well then..
Ive got a 5L gerry can in the shed from a year ago, I'm thinking I'll just fuck it into my gas tank now nect time before I top up
After a year or two, it would be easier to get an off grid system going than finding or making fuel a modern vehicle would run on.
Hummers were a thing. I can easily see those same people buying this.
South Africa.
Are you not aware of people in general? MANY think it's "cool as fuck" and those demonstrations bought them more than any sales tactic other car makers use. Imagine the stereotype of cavemen going "strong thing good, make woman want me, me want strong thing," and you got a good idea of a disturbing large part of humanity. That shit works extremely well for a lot of people.