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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by josephg on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:30PM (#11859381)
Apple could easily make a laptop with better battery - it would just be bigger, heavier and more expensive.

Elon Musk claims the same thing about Tesla - that he could easily increase the range on Tesla's cars if they wanted to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsixsRI-Sz4 . But with a range of ~300 miles he thinks they're fine.

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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by Caprinicus on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:31PM (#11859600)
It's like when apple got to 7+ hours with battery life, their laptops started getting drastically smaller instead of continuing to have longer lasting batteries. I'd like to have a 400 mile tesla, but I'd like to have a tesla that doesn't weigh 40 tons first.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c... by _ph_ on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @03:32PM (#11864925)
The current MacBook pro has with about 100Wh the largest battery you are allowed to carry onto airplanes - any larger battery would prohibit it traveling by air. So there is a very good reason not to make the battery any larger.
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