Make a standard well designed battery spec. open it. Then, have China make them like crazy... maybe attempt to make quality ones yourself to compete as the premium reliable brand. If you can.

Go with 48V where you can and make it electrically safe as possible so everybody doesn't fear the things.

This will allow used, repair, and create an aftermarket ... a market solving the most difficult aspects of EVs: heavily proprietary with huge lock-in and the fear of electricity.

An affordable car is a USED car. period. Sure batteries wear out. but ICE cars do too and have a ton of maintenance cost and risk... it's a gamble and way more random than an EV.

Oh, yes, that does mean they can't make money on the tons of repair.. so maybe affordable is impossible because they fool people into thinking they are buying an affordable car when really they are being scammed into years of hidden random costs which if they were upfront would make ICE unaffordable...

BS. The USA outsources it's pollution to China as does everybody who externalizes their problems to those who'll stoop the lowest! You can take measures to police how your suppliers behave and your government can do its part as well. Sure, you will pay more money to save CO2, save local jobs, etc. You want people to pay more so you can keep your job? yes... but not to keep other people's jobs? yes.

CHILDISH: But he does it! So I can do it too! (it being anything at all.) It's the flaw of our primate desire for equity being used against us.

It's the primary problem with HUMANS. not democracy. so called mob-rule is best because the most people get their way and a minority do not. hacking the majority's minds is entirely a human problem no matter how you spread out the power.

You cite the New York Post? Why not cite Fox News? or twitter?

Scientist(s) discover problem(s) and people ignore them until finally the hero listens can takes action using the ignored science (and often apply scientific reasoning) to save the day against all the hurdles the ignorant, corrupt, religious, or narcissistic antagonists place in front of them. The hero getting recognition in the end (maybe also for the scientists who lived.)

Are you the antagonist in this story and which type are you? Will you get the fate you deserve (unlikely, because this isn't fiction.)

Don't Look Up!

does it matter?

WTF is this productivity religion everybody is still in awe of? You masses of workers: productivity is the idol of the owners and it's goal is to eliminate your salary! Stop licking the boots of those who rob you of your salary! THINK.

We do not need constant productivity gains we need to stop salary robbery. The productivity gains never go to the workers, duh... even if you have a co-op and the workers are the owners, those gains in productivity means less jobs are required for greater output. Tech has been shoving out humans since the industrial revolution and career shifting can only go on so long to compensate; same with outsourcing. The futurism of the past where people work 30 hours per week by 2000 due to science went the other direction so to believe the same optimistic outcomes is foolish.

We need to cap hours to 20 within this generation which will double the workers for a "full time" job (which i've never had, all were 45; minimum on the clock plus email/phone, implied homework etc.) This will still not provide enough jobs... most your jobs out there are non-essential and doing pointless work is most today's economy and it's a huge sustainability problem we are just starting to see.

Atlas shrugs is juvenile fantasy at BEST and the fountainhead is not far from a juvenile tantrum.

Far far from adult philosophy.

This is good! MORE companies to sue! or your family to sue after they kill you.

It only takes 4% to knock you over after you miss your punch and your center of gravity is off. Look up the word "threshold" then try reading about the concept of addition... and you may want to try saving your money over time... just as good practice if you still don't understand accumulation.

1) cars have a weight problem. Shipping is relatively negligible which is why it's the cheapest way to send massive amounts of heavy things and rivers are still a big factor in economies. Battery tech not practical for cars can be used in boats... especially massive boats that just keep getting bigger to save money... they can afford to get a little bigger or give up a little space like the older smaller ships already do. Don't be fooled thinking they can't stay in business if government forces them to forfeit a little profit which they managed just fine with in the past before they squeezed blood from stone cutting every corner possible.

2) modular battery packs means specific batteries are not relevant long term because tech can easily be changed and fuel cells are also equally possible. Even generators... trains have been electric for generations for their superiority and it's the generator that runs on gas. Failed and obsolete tech can be swapped out easily making this ship is low risk.

3) They don't even have airfoils on this ship! They expect to save up to 30% using airfoils on ocean travel: https://www.bbc.com/news/techn....

Mrs. Gates was on a charity board with an IBM exec and initiated contact with IBM... it's who you know and having a family rich enough to get lucky connections like that.
Then Gates defrauded IBM but saved himself by finding an OS to buy cheap and adapt; probably unable to buy CP/M and I'd like to hear the story of how he failed to buy that instead of the shit OS he did buy...

More likely his body is a fake and the conspiracy nuts will leave clues on 8chan as to where he really is. Years of sightings, raiding basements of pizza shops for black ops prisons etc. tourist traps where his ghost haunts...

Most of all, con men trying to win over his fanbases' support claiming Trump's blessing replacing the exploitation of Reagan we've had for 30 years.

FISA has always been severely flawed but do you really want to "reform" it with arguably the worst House in US history? Plus a racist and unconstitutional filibuster in the Senate?
Until we get Rank Voting and toss out all the Republicans (wholly corrupt, any half decent ones were pushed out... or cowards who bend over when it matters.)

I'm sure Musk can buy a Small Language Model to accurately run Trump's account on Twitter after he dies. Hell, I bet he could get his Neurolink company to brain scan Trumps brain and run that on a Pentium!
MAGA forever.