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> he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles I miss the morning delivery of milk to the doorstep. And the milk carts that used to deliver it
by rikroots 9mo ago
> he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles
I miss the morning delivery of milk to the doorstep. And the milk carts that used to deliver it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
- ben_w 9mo agoLikewise, but those were famously slow. Might have been expandable into other delivery vehicles, but neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles… well, possibly electric bicycles back then, the European Blue Banana* was better positioned than much of the world to commute by bike, but not much more than that in performance or geography until much more recently. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana
- KaiserPro 9mo agoBut they weren’t designed as a commuter car. THey were designed to deliver milk.
- ben_w 9mo agoI'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles". Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline IIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.