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How do automobile makers decide how many gallons of gas a tank should hold?

How do automobile makers decide whether to put the gasoline tank on the left or the right of the car?

 

Some experimental cars operate on electric batteries. Do these go farther before the batteries die than another car would go on a tank of gas?
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