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Comment Re:Energy density. (Score 1) 734

I don't know why no EV manufacturer has thought of this:

Build a small generator / fuel tank into a TRAILER that you can hook up to your EV. This gives you the best of both worlds: for short, around-town trips, you leave the range extender trailer at home; but, when you want to drive long distance, just hook up the trailer and you can travel an arbitrarily long distance. Given the incredible efficiency of EVs, it's likely that a well-designed range extender trailer could give you several thousand kilometres of range.

Comment Re:Short answer: no (Score 1) 400

An historic X would be correct (the adjective starts with a vowel). So would an eulogy (y is really a vowel, in this case).

In both cases, I disagree, because it's just dumb. But that's the rule ... can we change the rule?

Comment Re:Short answer: no (Score 1) 400

Sorry, wrong. The 'correct' grammar as taught to me in school was to use the definite article 'a' when the noun referred to starts with a consonant, and 'an' when the noun starts with a vowel. Critically, this rule *regards 'H' as a vowel*, leading to the correct usages:
  An hero
  An hotel
  An hovel

Personally I think it's dumb to regard H as a vowel in this context, but that's what I was taught.

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