• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    amazing that it’s not on gutenberg, given that it was published 92 years ago.

    Wouldn’t want people getting ideas, eh?

    If we had simultaneously actually researched battery technology on an industrial level since the start of car manufacturing, I’m sure we would already have much better batteries.

    It’s not a joke or conspiracy that there’s the fossil fuel industry engages in suppressing and downplaying technology that might affect their business.

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      10 hours ago

      Some of the first cars were electric, at least I remember reading about those breaking records (like going over 60km/h maybe, it was a long time ago).

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        18 hours ago

        Only when mobile phones started being an actual notion did batteries finally start becoming reasonable. Now it’s been like 40 years and the development is pretty significant. But if there had been 80 years more…? Who knows.