The one that is affordable, more reliable, and doesn’t cost a lot to maintain.

EVs are getting better when it comes to affordability so maybe my next car (after my current one) dies then maybe I’ll consider an EV.

The EV only wins on flat road with plenty of charging stations.
Gasoline engines are for people who want to have fun.
Also refueling is a lot quicker in gas engines.
A hybrid has both the problems and some of the benefits of both types.

Gas usually wins.

well with gas engine your fuel weight decrease when you move your car it help

also with electricity you use more energy to do same effort than with thermal, but if your electricity come from renew or nuclear power plant it is better to use electric car, if you mostly use oil better to use gas engine than waste them in electricity to run electric car

Originally posted by Verboten:

What is superior

I would have thought the combustion engine vs the EV, but if methane is your choice then who am I to disagree on your topical choice.

If by superior you mean performance, electric vehicles have much better acceleration, but for sustainable high speeds, combustion engines still have an advantage, I believe.

Originally posted by Corvus XIII:

Originally posted by Verboten:

What is superior

I would have thought the combustion engine vs the EV, but if methane is your choice then who am I to disagree on your topical choice.

I drove a taxi for a while which ran on gas (propane, I believe?), and it was good, even though it looked a bit weird (Mitsubishi Space Wagon, 7 seats ).

This was back in the late 90s, when there were many of those here, especially as taxis, but not sure how common it is anymore. They could only be filled at a few locations.

EV are scam. No better for environment.

Originally posted by Bjørn:

If by superior you mean performance, electric vehicles have much better acceleration, but for sustainable high speeds, combustion engines still have an advantage, I believe.

Originally posted by Corvus XIII:

I would have thought the combustion engine vs the EV, but if methane is your choice then who am I to disagree on your topical choice.

I drove a taxi for a while which ran on gas (propane, I believe?), and it was good, even though it looked a bit weird (Mitsubishi Space Wagon, 7 seats :lunar2019grinningpig:).

This was back in the late 90s, when there were many of those here, especially as taxis, but not sure how common it is anymore. They could only be filled at a few locations.

The council (back in the late 90s early 2000s) there litter picker teams trucks were gas too and I am going to say propane but cannot remember it exactly now).

Originally posted by Abaddon the Despoiler:

EV are scam. No better for environment.

Don't care about environment. I was talking from performance stand point of view

gas :V
also the pedantry is cute, eurokuns :3c

electric motor without brushes is good invention and combination of technology, batteries have been painful on environment.

what was the fuel for the car used in the first moon walk? couldn't have been usual gas, because there is no oxygen on the moon.

in what terms? reliability? then gas

Right now, ICE engines are better. It'll take a while still before EVs catch up in basic performance metrics. But even then, it's dirtier, more toxic, with vehicles basically becoming two ton bricks of e-waste after a few years.

EVs have a constant torque curve. ICE engines produce torque at a curve, with an optimal RPM for best performance. Keeping the engine in that RPM range for best efficiency is usually done with a bunch of gears in the transmission. Electric makes full torque at any RPM so it doesn't need a transmission.

If you powered electric motors with energy generated from an ICE, you'd theoretically have the best performance and best efficiency. This might be a job for inexpensive, non toxic, but lower energy density sodium ion batteries.

Originally posted by Verboten:

What is superior

Gas. People forget that EVs were the primary form of motor vehicle in the late 1800's, gas won because it's more energy dense and you can refill it faster and those advantages have never gone away.

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

EVs have a constant torque curve.

That's a myth. They have very high immediate "breakaway" torque (at very low efficiency) which is normally the value that is made a big deal of, then the torque falls off linearly as RPM increases until you reach "back EMF limits" where the motor is acting like a generator and opposing the current you're feeding in to it where the torque falls off of a cliff.

Originally posted by Verboten:

Gas engine vs EV
What is superior

Are you just bored, baiting or do you have an opinion of your own the subject?