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Woman charges her electric car in her garage, USA, 1912 (lemmy.world)
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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

imagine where battery tech would be if we never started burning bones for power.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imagine if that first ape that climbed down from the trees went "Nah." And climbed back up.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No job. No taxes.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No skibidi toilet

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Hearing nothing but positives so far.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pedantic, but most fossil fuels are from plant matter.

[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like how you think!

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not much different than it is now. Batteries are used by a large number of industries in a wide variety of products and mind bogglingly vast sums of money have been spent on improving them for the last century.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Most applications don't have the same requirements as in a car though. A car battery has to be portable, as light as possible, survive frequent charging and discharging, charge relatively quickly, handle significant weather differences, be resistant to catching on fire, and I'm sure I'm missing some factors. Most other uses only need a subset of these, and also the scale is not as large as it would be if we electrified every car. (Ideally we move away from cars in general, but we should work on both of these.)