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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by gumby on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:24PM (#27714290)
> The oil and gas industry delayed real research and development of electric vehicles for 100 years.

Do you mean proactively somehow (as with GM and some trollycars)? I find that hard to believe and would love to learn more.

If you mean their very existence reduced incentives, well ok, but that’s simply path dependency and is the way life works.

There were other pressures on battery improvement (portability: schlepping a heavy box of protons around is a lot of work!) so I have a hard time blaming the oil and gas industry for that. But as I said I’d like to learn more, if that were the case.

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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by Schiendelman on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:56PM (#27797335)
Yes! I don’t have a link handy, but they patented battery technology and kept it off the market, including buying companies that could have become competitive.
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