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ICE technical advances are in the same territory as advances in CRT, film based photography and coiled coil light bulbs. Nobody took LCD screens, digital camera

ICE technical advances are in the same territory as advances in CRT, film based photography and coiled coil light bulbs. Nobody took LCD screens, digital cameras and LED lights seriously in the 1990's but here we are today where we only use the new stuff. Flat panel yield was a problem in the 1990s, every screen had dead pixels. The magic of film grain and a Pentax SLR wasn't that special, kids today don't even know or care. The warm colours of old lightbulbs are forgotten too. Yet there was amazing analog engineering and precision mass manufacturing with these products. ICE is going that way. The yield on the battery part is being solved, aka range/price. For performance the electric motor has no equal and things like regen are game changing. In time ICE will have specialist applications such as for creating electricity to charge a battery in remote locations, that will be about it. The tech innovation and investment has moved on to electric power trains. The horse has gone and it is too late to shut the gate. Nostalgia is not enough for ICE particularly when the baby boomers have moved on.

perl4ever 7y ago
"The warm colours of old lightbulbs are forgotten too" This is obviously not true; when I go to a hardware or home improvement store, there is all sorts of information on the color temperature and purported color reproduction quality of the light bulbs. And "warm white" LEDs that are supposed to imitate incandescent are ubiquitous.
busterarm 7y ago
The kind of batteries that we're talking about simply do not operate outside of the 0-35 degree Celsius temperature range. It will never be "ICE to charge batteries" because the batteries will not cycle in those conditions. North of 16C is optimal. The limitation is the chemistry. If you look at the temperature variance across the planet, you'll realize that there's vast numbers of people for whom batteries are never going to be an option.

perl4ever 7y ago

"The warm colours of old lightbulbs are forgotten too" This is obviously not true; when I go to a hardware or home improvement store, there is all sorts of information on the color temperature and purported color reproduction quality of the light bulbs. And "warm white" LEDs that are supposed to imitate incandescent are ubiquitous.

busterarm 7y ago

The kind of batteries that we're talking about simply do not operate outside of the 0-35 degree Celsius temperature range. It will never be "ICE to charge batteries" because the batteries will not cycle in those conditions. North of 16C is optimal. The limitation is the chemistry. If you look at the temperature variance across the planet, you'll realize that there's vast numbers of people for whom batteries are never going to be an option.