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New tech is tricky, Bertha Benz had to refuel her car in pharmacies.
by KingOfCoders 2y ago
New tech is tricky, Bertha Benz had to refuel her car in pharmacies.
- tmalsburg2 2y agoAfter Bertha Benz’ famous drive [1], it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream. I wonder if we’re looking at a similar timeline. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-country_automobile_journey,_1888 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-coun...
- wodenokoto 2y ago> it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream. I think you are trying to insinuate that electric cars are decades away from today. The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Electric cars are mainstream today. So I suppose you can argue that it is a similar timeline, we are just decades after Bertha Benz' famous drive. > Globally, around 1-in-4 new cars sold were electric in 2023. In Norway, this share was over 90%, and in China, it was almost 40%. https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
- duskwuff 2y ago> The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Well over a century ago, in fact. For quite a while early on, they were more popular than internal combustion cars.
- tmalsburg2 2y agoOP implied that we‘re experiencing the Bertha Benz moment of electric cars. Wasn’t my idea. I just spelled out the possible implication.
- Rinzler89 2y agoElectrical charging isn't new tech this past century. It's just the governments are not investing in the infrastructure needed for the EV switch which have different operational limitations than ICE cars, posing huge challenges for existing ICE users to switch to EVs, yet governments miss that part. Unlike North America, most people in Europe live in apartment buildings not single family homes. The streets sides in my city are full of parked ICE cars like in most of Europe, but very few EVs, and even those are either company cars with chargers at the office or wealthy people from the suburbs with chargers at home. Where are the plebs without a house charger supposed to charge while at home? Via Starlink?
- KingOfCoders 2y ago[flagged]
- pjmlp 2y agoWhere are the EV chargers that do a full tank in 5 minutes?
- KingOfCoders 2y agoI hate pharmacies too!
- Rinzler89 2y agoIgnore the troll.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoThen there is that story, where the troll tells the troll to ignore the troll. I forgot why that one came to mind.
- Rinzler89 2y agoHow long are you gonna keep braking HN rules? What do you gain with your low quality comments and zero arguments?
- Rinzler89 2y agoHow long does it take you to gas a ICE car versus charge an EV at a public charger? And also compare the range that fill takes you?
- Delmololo 2y agoAt least in Munich (big city btw) a lot of basement parking exist due to laws were you need to build this space when having a flat. In my area with a lot of 4 story buildings every one of them has one. And yes it's not just the laws it's often also old people being against it like in my case. What helped were laws.