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Electric Vehicles

Title text: Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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The title text is relating electric vehicles to electric instruments, which are contrasted with acoustic guitars. In the case of guitars, this doesn't refer to how they're powered, but how their sound is transmitted from the strings and amplified. There's no such thing as an acoustic vehicle, though sound can be used to generate propulsion on a small scale in a variety of ways.

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[Cueball is standing to the left side of the panel, and Megan and White Hat are standing to his right.]

Cueball: I would never get an electric vehicle.

Cueball: Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge?

[Caption below the image:]

I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained to me that EVs are rechargeable.

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This is a test. PoolloverNathan^{[stalk the blue seas]} 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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