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What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?
here's an article I usually reference when this kind of question comes up: https://web.archive.org/web/20170417164448/https://www.vanco... tldr; In dirty electricity regions, driving on electricity creates similar climate pollution to gasoline. Regions that burn mostly coal and natural gas to generate electricity create high levels of climate pollution for each kWh. In Alberta, for example, a Plug-In Prius will cause…
Pronunciation is no longer “folks wagen” but “faults wagen”. The classic German ironic sense of humor.
"V" can be randomly soft or hard, "Volk" is pronounced like "Folk" but "Volt" like "Wolt". THere's no real equivalent sound in English, I think. But, yeah, I've owned several VWs and electrical wiring is usually faulty so I'll go with Faultswagen as well.
Is that the correction pronunciation now?
Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?
They should rename it to Folks-Wagon.
I think Speed-Wagon would catch on among the younger generations.
What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?
If you want to know there’s plenty of reliable sources like the doe (and if you want confirmation bias rather than facts, there’s plenty of unreliable sources) Last time someone made a comment like yours, I actually tried googling and there’s a doe site that actually tells you the carbon emissions by state for an ev, hybrid or normal gas car given that states specific energy sources. Even W Virginia, the worst state…
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Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
It is respectful to at least attempt to pronounce names from different cultures. In many cases, I totally understand it is difficult. In those cases, an attempt is great. In this case, the syllable F exists in Latin and I don't see why it. I must say, I have seen many many times a lack of interest to even attempt to pronounce of even write a name properly. One example which comes to my mind is Ghandi instead of Gandh…
If I were trying to say the word 'Volkswagen' to a German speaking person, I would do my best to pronounce it in a way they would understand. As most of the time I ever say the word 'Volkswagen' out loud it's to my fellow English speakers, pronouncing it in the expected English way seems way less pretentious and way more effective.