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b_b  ·  548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream

But minidisc didn’t require a wholesale change in how the economy works. I guess that’s where I get hung up. Sure fuel cells are something to strive for if you can engineer a good capture and storage system for hydrogen that has range and doesn’t make the ford pinto look like a top class Volvo by comparison. But I think it’s a worthy endpoint, given the huge potential upside. In my estimation “EV” has become a heuristic for “I like the environment” without a lot of depth behind what they are and how they’re made in a practical sense.