There's no reason electric cars can't/won't be just as profitable as ICE cars are now. The battery is the only part on the expensive side. Most of an electric car is the same as an ICE car, and the drive-train is (or will be shortly) much cheaper to design and manufacture.
I believe this is about right. I have likened it to flat panel monitors. One day they were two expensive and not quite good enough, and a few months later you couldn't buy a CRT if you had to.
I suspect "over night" for passenger cars will be more in the five to ten year range, but I absolutely do believe that once the transition starts in earnest, it will be very quick. Just like monitors and digital cameras, they will reach the good enough, cheap enough point, and the ICE car will die. When the price and range issues diminish enough, the mountain of benefits will be quickly overwhelming.
Weight reduction using batteries in airplanes is nowhere on the horizon. Compared to ground vehicle drive trains, jet engines have a great power to weight ratio, and they use no transmission. Replacing a modern jet with a motor and propeller is in itself a step backward.
On the other hand, airplanes spend a lot of time above the clouds and have a lot of surface area, so perhaps solar panels could provide a measurable range boost on day flights. But I kind of doubt it; solar panels have a terrible power to weight ratio.
This is dumb to even think about until batteries improve dramatically. In fact I suspect it may never actually work, because as technology progresses, it will become viable to manufacture carbon neutral fuel for use in airplanes.
Since the AC was good enough to post a Goodenough joke that was at least possibly good enough...
How do we know it's an imposter? No one else seems to have noticed. It would seem that if Goodenough is actually an imposter, that the imposter might actually be good enough.
In what way is a less efficient/more expensive system a "better idea"?
The hydrogen fuel cell approach makes sense if you need to power machines which are not always connected to the grid, such as cars and trucks, but it makes very little sense for grid storage.
If shoes have computers in them, at some point it will be cheaper to put computers in them that are smarter than us. Even a fairly dumb shoe understands this.
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Why do people say this? ICEV's can be automated just fine. The one real difference that made that not true (hydraulic steering assist) is now gone.
The fact is EV's have all sorts of benefits that have nothing at all to do with automation, and that's why they will take over.
There's no reason electric cars can't/won't be just as profitable as ICE cars are now. The battery is the only part on the expensive side. Most of an electric car is the same as an ICE car, and the drive-train is (or will be shortly) much cheaper to design and manufacture.
I believe this is about right. I have likened it to flat panel monitors. One day they were two expensive and not quite good enough, and a few months later you couldn't buy a CRT if you had to.
I suspect "over night" for passenger cars will be more in the five to ten year range, but I absolutely do believe that once the transition starts in earnest, it will be very quick. Just like monitors and digital cameras, they will reach the good enough, cheap enough point, and the ICE car will die. When the price and range issues diminish enough, the mountain of benefits will be quickly overwhelming.
I think at best somewhere near 50% of new passenger car sales will be pure electric in eight years.
"You can go anywhere in world, and you’re still our customer,” said Pearce. “And you can do it on the move.”
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The last back up they did was around 65 million years ago (12:00 this morning, laptop time).
Which means they CAN smell better. GP is accurate.
But can they smell that smell?
You should be punished for mentioning Paradox in a discussion of "ideal" programming languages.
Atari 800.
Why are we around then?
Who else will consume what the robots produce?
Meaning the specific use of vague terms.
Weight reduction using batteries in airplanes is nowhere on the horizon. Compared to ground vehicle drive trains, jet engines have a great power to weight ratio, and they use no transmission. Replacing a modern jet with a motor and propeller is in itself a step backward.
On the other hand, airplanes spend a lot of time above the clouds and have a lot of surface area, so perhaps solar panels could provide a measurable range boost on day flights. But I kind of doubt it; solar panels have a terrible power to weight ratio.
This is dumb to even think about until batteries improve dramatically. In fact I suspect it may never actually work, because as technology progresses, it will become viable to manufacture carbon neutral fuel for use in airplanes.
Since the AC was good enough to post a Goodenough joke that was at least possibly good enough...
How do we know it's an imposter? No one else seems to have noticed. It would seem that if Goodenough is actually an imposter, that the imposter might actually be good enough.
That's only the half of it. He's also figure out how to post in a /. discussion which won't exist until next year.
On the other hand, he's fiddling around on /. instead of selling all that stock he bought just before it jump in price. Intelligence level: Confusing?
"www.google.com".Length < "Huh? Not recognized by my browser.".Length.
Nice work.
Well then, they won't be able to watch the revenge enactment.
In what way is a less efficient/more expensive system a "better idea"?
The hydrogen fuel cell approach makes sense if you need to power machines which are not always connected to the grid, such as cars and trucks, but it makes very little sense for grid storage.
Is it not nobel to at least try?
The make up of college CS programs is different if you're female or have brown skin?
Bubble sort and linked lists are not in the same category.
You need to know about bubble sort in the sense that you need to know it exists and should never be written. It's a bit like syphilis.
Linked lists actually have practical uses.
Isn't bubble sort a trick question?
"Please implement bubble sort."
"No. That would be stupid."
"Good answer."
What does this have to do with women and people of color?
If shoes have computers in them, at some point it will be cheaper to put computers in them that are smarter than us. Even a fairly dumb shoe understands this.
I think it's probly more important that they don't have opposable thumbs.