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Likewise, but those were famously slow. Might have been expandable into other delivery vehicles, but neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commu
by ben_w 11mo ago
Likewise, 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 11mo agoBut they weren’t designed as a commuter car. THey were designed to deliver milk.
- ben_w 11mo 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.