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tldr anyone? are there game changing inflection points likely within 5 years or is the key take away prices continue to fall fast?

AdrianB1 8y ago
My own personal conclusion is that electric car batteries are already at the price of an engine and auxiliary equipment (alternator, turbo, injection pump, gearbox) of an ICE, so the price of small electric cars should be ~ $10,000. We have SUV's that cost $10,000 built by Renault in Europe and $7,500 sedans, so a $10,000 electric city car is possible.
Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y ago
It's a fairly short and information-dense article. Just go read it. Solid-state would be a game-changer, but mid- to late-2020s is about when that would come about.
- WhitneyLand 8y ago
  >>just go read it. Uh...no? - There's nothing wrong with suggesting a tldr/summary post. You hear some here say they'd prefer every article had one. - It's doesn't leach or degrade site comment quality. At least not if common sense is used to ask sparsely, and keep one's contribution to request ratio > 1. - It can provide real benefit to the community. When was the last year one person could absorb the sum of all human knowledge, 17th century, or earlier? I along with plenty of others most often do "just go read" the article here if it seems interesting. Plus a metric crap ton more from other sources. There's just not enough hours in the day. It's humanly impossible to fully read merely the subset of content that seems interesting. None of that withstanding, thank you for adding the one liner sentence about the article in question. No sarcasm. I consider that beneficial in the same spirit, and it was appreciated. The main point is concepts analogous to RTFM may have validity in certain contexts, but I don't believe HN is the best possible fit you could find for them.

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tldr anyone? are there game changing inflection points likely within 5 years or is the key take away prices continue to fall fast?

by WhitneyLand 8y ago

AdrianB1 8y ago
My own personal conclusion is that electric car batteries are already at the price of an engine and auxiliary equipment (alternator, turbo, injection pump, gearbox) of an ICE, so the price of small electric cars should be ~ $10,000. We have SUV's that cost $10,000 built by Renault in Europe and $7,500 sedans, so a $10,000 electric city car is possible.
Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y ago
It's a fairly short and information-dense article. Just go read it. Solid-state would be a game-changer, but mid- to late-2020s is about when that would come about.
- WhitneyLand 8y ago
  >>just go read it. Uh...no? - There's nothing wrong with suggesting a tldr/summary post. You hear some here say they'd prefer every article had one. - It's doesn't leach or degrade site comment quality. At least not if common sense is used to ask sparsely, and keep one's contribution to request ratio > 1. - It can provide real benefit to the community. When was the last year one person could absorb the sum of all human knowledge, 17th century, or earlier? I along with plenty of others most often do "just go read" the article here if it seems interesting. Plus a metric crap ton more from other sources. There's just not enough hours in the day. It's humanly impossible to fully read merely the subset of content that seems interesting. None of that withstanding, thank you for adding the one liner sentence about the article in question. No sarcasm. I consider that beneficial in the same spirit, and it was appreciated. The main point is concepts analogous to RTFM may have validity in certain contexts, but I don't believe HN is the best possible fit you could find for them.