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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by kehshdjd on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:04PM (#17234135)
His point is that gas spoils. It polymerizes creating a bunch of hunk that clogs the fuel lines
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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by URSpider94 on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:47PM (#17234836)
This mostly happens in the presence of air. As long as the gas tank is tightly sealed, this isn’t an issue. I drive a BMW i3, I regularly have a tank of gas sloshing around for months with no issues.

All of the plug-in hybrids run maintenance cycles every month or so to ensure that the motor turns over and some fuel goes through the injectors.

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by gaius on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:59AM (#17235738)
His point is that gas spoils. It polymerizes creating a bunch of hunk that clogs the fuel lines

This is something that post-apocalypse fiction usually gets wrong. After a year you would probably not be able to grab any random abandoned car and drive it (even if the battery held charge)

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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by mnw21cam on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:10AM (#17236042)
Yeah, and the old jeeps in Jurassic World have 20 year old batteries and 20 year old fuel, and a couple of kids got one of them working again.
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Re:Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds by olivermarks on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:28PM (#17234237)
would be a good idea to run a good fuel preserver in the gas

https://www.goldeagle.com/product/sta-bil-fuel-stabilizer/ (no affiliation, I just have old cars in storage)

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