"hill gradient" is the issue. On a perfect flat leveled surface you can add as much battery as you want and the car will still move. The acceleration will suffer though. Resistance increase on a flat leveled surface for a car when adding more weight is really low.

Something really interesting is the Netflix documentary called "take your pils". At the end, they showed a double blind experiment of people taking Aderal vs. placebo.
Although there were ZERO improvements in the Aderal group, one strange result is that almost 100% who took Aderal instead of placebo, checked one box in the test. The box asked "do you feel the pill helped you perform better"?. That didn't happened to the control placebo group.

Patents are the core problem.

Economy: Science that studies scarcity.
Patent: A way to make scarce a resource it is not scarce.

So by definition, patentes reduce the world economy. Even more importan, Mariana Mazucatto (Italian economist) managed to study all drugs create after WW2 up to know and she was able to prove that at least, 75% of the drugs were created with government funds, and then a pharma took it. modified an atom of the molecule and patented it.

Take for example Ketamine as a single shot lifetime antidepressant ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Frebe... ). It was proved to work real well, but since it cannot be patented, no pharma wants to work to get it approved by the FDA as antidepressant. Finally, a pharma was able to modify the molecule and patent it (SPRAVATO). The modification was done so it is no longer a single shot lifetime antidepressant (you need to take it constantly) and to be able to patent it. It was the fastest drug ever approved by the FDA at the time.

Government and patents are at the core of the problem. If a new drug that promises to solve depression forever for every person in the planet with a single shot, and no pharma wants to test it because it can't be patented, government role is to test it and approve it.

Follow the money...

BTW. Propeller airplanes are easier to electrify. Might be cheaper than a high speed train.

It will coexists with machines.

BMW i3 REX was a great implementation of the PHEV idea.

That was thanks to moving from 32 to 64 bits. That's made all the difference in memory capacity.

The EU was able to force Apple to use USB-C.
We need the EU to force EV car makers to use the same plug and to use a standard modular form factor for batteries (for example, 40x40x10 cm packs with 350V on a standard plug) so you can replace smaller FRU packs whenever they die or whenever newer and better chemistry is available.
Instead of government regulations were we are allowed to use cars, we need government regulations to improve EVs repair costs.

The EU was able to force Apple to use USB-C.
We need the EU to force EV car makers to use the same plug and to use a standard modular form factor for batteries (for example, 40x40x10 cm packs with 350V on a standard plug) so you can replace smaller FRU packs whenever they die or whenever newer and better chemistry is available.

I remember that Sun Microsystems's SPARC T2 was openspec and also its Verilog GPLed, and no one cared.

People just don't want to do that. They want to go to expensive 4 year schools and finance ALL of it, with even bothering to determine an ROI.

You are totally 100% correct.

There are way cheaper options:

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University of the people (fully credited university) fees:

Total Costs

The total approximate costs to earn a degree at UoPeople are the following:

Associate Degree: $2,460
Bachelor’s Degree: $4,860
MBA: $3,660
M.Ed.: $3,960
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US have other options.

University of the people (fully credited university) fees:
Total Costs
The total approximate costs to earn a degree at UoPeople are the following:
Associate Degree: $2,460
Bachelor’s Degree: $4,860
MBA: $3,660
M.Ed.: $3,960
MSIT: $3,660

University of the people (fully credited university) fees:

Total Costs

The total approximate costs to earn a degree at UoPeople are the following:

Associate Degree: $2,460
Bachelor’s Degree: $4,860
MBA: $3,660
M.Ed.: $3,960
MSIT: $3,660

Wow! Good data. One important thing to keep in mind is the power cycles the battery can take. It is better to get a LifePo4 based car than a Li-Ion. You will get much more cycles out of LiFePo4.

Yep. I think that things will go the other way around. Accenture and Deloitte won't be able to justify a premium over Indian consulting since everyone will be using ChatGPT like tools to code.