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Don't use poor economics with physical impossibilities interchangeably. It's something that my late ICE professor did all the time about EVs in the mid 2000s u
by CBarkleyU 3y ago
Don't use poor economics with physical impossibilities interchangeably.
It's something that my late ICE professor did all the time about EVs in the mid 2000s up until his death in the mid 2010s. He was extremely bright, very knowledgeable and pretty much "the" in his little ICE niche and yet he was always talking about how EVs wouldn't be teh future because [physically possible but outlandish thing]. Energy density, price per kwh, weight, battery management, charging infrastructure. All things that he was all to happy with going on national TV to declare that EVs were a pipe dream. Unfortunately he died at a young age and didn't get to see the EV revolution and the Tesla Model Y selling more units than his beloved Golf in Europe.
The thing is, and that's my actual point, you can't innovate past physics, but you sure can innovate past poor economics.