Stats for nerds
1recommend
2mentions
2people
2022–2024years
50% recommend50% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made by Vaclav Smil
Just a wonderful book.
- Yeah, my unit of analysis is the decade, sorry. Been reading Vaclav Smil too much (Energy in Nature and Society; Grand Transitions).
There was a news item on the BBC recently about battery swap being used by taxi firms in "second tier" Chinese cities (so, only 5M - 15M inhabitants).
That's how it starts: large fleet operators who want their vehicles earning revenue for as long as possible; then smaller fleet operators; then manufacturers sell to the public ("never worry about battery failure", with suitable horror stories like "the Tesla owner up for $20K just out of warranty". True or not).
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