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[-] the_wonderfool@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Technology will catch up. Batteries today have a capacity of around 250w/kg, but in the lab they are already 400-500w/kg. At some point "range anxiety" stops being a real issue, and then you don't need to cram as many batteries as you can anymore, and you focus on optimizing what you already have.

Everything else in an electric car is already more compact than an ice equivalent.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Okay then my other worry is that people will be so used to buying SUVs that car makers won’t make anything else.

Which has already happened.

[-] thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I just read a news article saying that the new car buying generation of teens and twenty-somethings actually don't want SUVs as they see them as "old people cars". If that's true, I'm all for it.

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