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Interesting factoids in this article - electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity, and there’s over 800 million sold every year. Would
by microjim 5y ago
Interesting factoids in this article - electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity, and there’s over 800 million sold every year.
Would be curious about maintenance on these motors. The bearings would be the first to go, right? Would that still be doable by a local shop?
- justapassenger 5y agoRelated interesting tibid - car companies made tons of people believe that electric motors are basically their invention, and they’re leading innovation in that area.
- ricardobeat 5y agoHaven’t seen anyone claim they invented electric motors, after all they were used before the ICE, but I don’t think there’s any doubt around how much innovation car companies have brought to electric motors? Almost every single one uses a custom design for efficiency / reliability reasons.
- dreamcompiler 5y agoThere's one electric car company that named itself after the inventor of the motor they used. And he died about 60 years before the company was founded so I don't see them claiming to have invented motors. (Okay there's actually a second EV company that named themselves after the same inventor's first name, but they're a fraud.)
- nerdponx 5y ago> electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity Stated another way: over half of the world's electricity is used to move stuff.
- dotancohen 5y agoStated another way: almost half of the world's electricity is used to warm stuff or make noise. Compute power is lost in the error bars. Though I would say that actually moving stuff is probably the best use of such a resource.
- imtringued 5y agoConsidering the finite nature of earth, everything is about logistics and moving stuff. It's not like we generate new resources and destroy them. We take resources in earth's crust and move them in our phones and then back to the earth.