• farticustheelder@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Toyota should just shut down or at least shut up.

    Sensible people would just admit that they got EVs wrong and promise to work twice as hard to get themselves out of that hole and catch up to the leading edge companies.

    Stupid people, make a mistake, refuse to admit it, then double-down (or go all in!, pick your favorite cliché).

    Back in the middle of the last decade Samsung and MIT announced a solid state battery (SSB) that could last for 500 years, or more. That was the research part of work and Samsung took it back to its factories to ‘bring it to market’. We are still waiting.

    We do have solid state batteries but they are hand built by very expensive technicians. Musk has complained that robots lack the dexterity to do the job.