Negative Space: battery-powered cars
- Growing from the ruins of a rotting industry
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There’s something incredibly liberating about kicking the ass of a moribund industry.
- Lazlo Hollyfeld on the electric car
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The problems with electric cars are insurmountable without completely new battery technology that no one who wants to mandate battery-powered cars is looking for. Almost as if the real purpose of electric cars is not transportation, but anti-transportation.
- Socialized gasoline: The bureaucratic miracle of Vehicle-to-Grid
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Vehicle to grid, when managed by governments, will mean taking your car’s fuel and giving it to somebody else who needs it more.
- What will a useful electric car look like?
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New technologies win by being better than previous technologies, not worse. The modern battery-powered car is ridiculously close to its turn of the century counterpart. They may look more modern, but the same hundred-year-old technology that has never met the needs of drivers still powers them and hobbles them.
- Zeno’s motorcar
- Automobiles are awesome machines. But sometimes it seems as though they’re stuck twenty years in the past.
