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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God, imagine the trouble we could've saved if battery technology was less primitive at the time.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 71 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Hearing nothing but positives so far.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pedantic, but most fossil fuels are from plant matter.

[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I like how you think!

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 14 points 11 months 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 11 months 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.)

[–] makingrain@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Imagine, though.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

Not yet... few more years of climate change and those of us left will welcome the reliability and independence afforded by the horse. We'll get there!

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Sorta. This thing was basically a horse carriage with an electric motor. If you build it light and don't expect it to go much faster than a horse at a trot, then yes, you can have a perfectly functional electric car with decent range way back then.