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Re:Duck Curve by z-cam on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:52PM (#21371970)
I might be saying "en masse" 18 months prematurely. But at the speed utilities move, that's a blink of an eye.

I'm often reminded of Steve Balmer in 2007 laughing at the iPhone: "it's $500 and it doesn't even have a keyboard!?"

Less than 10 years later smartphones are ubiquitous. Not popular--ubiquitous.

That's where EVs are right now: "they cost more and they can't even go 250 miles!?"

EVs will be cheaper than gas cars by 2022, and a few years after that nobody will buy another gas car.

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Re:Duck Curve by brandmeyer on Sunday October 27, 2019 @04:05PM (#21372033)
$500 smartphones are only ubiquitous in the most wealthy parts of the most wealthy countries in the world.
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Re:Duck Curve by pedrosorio on Sunday October 27, 2019 @04:15PM (#21372091)
Smartphones are ubiquitous, not high-end iPhones.

EVs will be ubiquitous, not Tesla Model S.

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Re:Duck Curve by z-cam on Sunday October 27, 2019 @04:26PM (#21372160)
Agreed
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