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Re:The Latest Bull Case for Electric Cars: The Cheapest Batt... by greglindahl on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:18AM (#15895459)
1) The first electric cars were from the early 1900s, everything since should be treated as incremental, just like the iPhone wasn't that much of an advance over other smartphones.

2) Halo products are a concept, but apparently not in cars. BYD's failed attempts to introduce premium cars, followed by eventual success in me-too compliance cars for the Chinese market deserves a participation award. Not praise.

3) Uh, OK. Never mind the facts, let's focus on opposing Musk worship.

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Re:The Latest Bull Case for Electric Cars: The Cheapest Batt... by gitah on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:46AM (#15896054)
Don't think I can ever convince people like you. In terms of scale, driving down costs and adoption, Tesla is a shrimp.

Keep being arrogant and think the world revolves around Silicon Valley tech companies. When EVs completely replaces ICE, people like you will think Musk did by himself against dumb incumbents while completely ignoring the much much greater contributions of everyone else.

I'll just leave with this statistic [1]:

> China’s demand for electric bus batteries is almost equal to that of demand for all electric vehicle batteries

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-08/china-goe...

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Re:The Latest Bull Case for Electric Cars: The Cheapest Batt... by greglindahl on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:23PM (#15900093)
Huh, you just made up a bunch of stuff and said I believe it. I'm not the strawman you were attempting to beat.
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