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And standardise recycling while you're at it.
So, decoupling battery from the car and allowing better competition in the battery space might fly. Car makers need not be bothered by the battery tech and can just focus on making good electric motors, since most of the car parts are from other vendors anyways.
However, the decoupling might not be all that rosy as Musk has demonstrated that safety is best achieved with total vertical integration. Even Tesla tried battery swapping but gave up.
This might work really well in 2 wheelers though. The existing bike manufacturers won't have to retool their factories by much to replace the engine with a motor and the batteries can be probably swapped in and out of the under seat space or something like that.
Removable batteries for cars has a LOT of bulk and weight to deal with. More a "service interval" like action rather than a daily event. Still handy to have but not nearly so much incentive in the market.
But for motorbikes and scooters, maybe it could work. Especially small city scooter(125cc equivalent) work.
Mind you, I am picturing a dystopian future whereby all the UberEats-like delivery scooter people keep getting their batteries stolen...
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Motivation - make money for rentiers, otherwise get sued.
Economies of scale - many low paid employees means differences in how you treat them can add up to millions.
Result - employ people to reduce those millions in costs.
Don't blame the man, blame the game.
Having an aristocratic title that passes down is much worse than some rich dude leaving money because that lasts hundreds of years. And gets taxed.
But in a practical sense, I also don't think the next generation of Bezo's are going to be anything but obscenely wealthy. And the generation after that. And after that.
While the hereditary title was a bad idea, they also had turnover too.
So I think it is much of a muchness.
Isn't he likely going to be the next trillionaire anyway, with or without the title of Lord?
Curiously, it doesn't answer the question.
5yo mind: The Moon is up, so if you have a fire pole, you slide down, to Earth! How long does that take?
(Years of KSP experience later...)
Oof... Up isn't really what I thought up was, and neither is down. It makes more sense now, and almost less sense at the same time if you try to explain it to anyone.
It's been bad since 9/11, but it's insane now. I can't imagine the TSA is treating people better than they did pre-Trump.
Maybe things will be better next year.
But since Trump I really feel on balance that I'd much rather go to many other places in the world instead.
Maybe not China/Russia though...
But since Trump I really feel on balance that I'd much rather go to many other places in the world instead.
Maybe not China/Russia though...