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RE: The Tesla Killer? Why Fisker Zombie-Motive Is Vaporware (AGAIN!!!)
Thanks a lot for your thorough answer, I appreciate it.
Yes, to scale is the keyword.
I know that from my friends at Elaphe. They are in the middle of satisfying all the safety standards now. They are also putting up the manufacturing plant with their Chinese partner. They are aiming to produce 10,000 units of in-wheel motors in the first year. And then scale up :)
Semis are huge market indeed. Railway transport should be bigger but it isn't, unfortunately. That speaking from the environmental point of view. We missed the train of putting the majority of the cargo on the trains long ago.
Thanks again. It is interesting to see your expertise in other fields apart from the Steem / Steemit related areas :)
My pleasure. One interesting segment of their announcement that I haven't seen highlighted is that Tesla semis traveling in sequence are actually more efficient than rail. That could be really disruptive. Over 10 years ago I wrote a blog about the potential impact of enabling autonomous cars to draft one another on highways, and it seems tesla is moving toward that. Eventually one can imagine miles long "trains" of Tesla cars and semis intelligently "linked" to maximize efficiency and speed that new cars can dynamically enter and exit, unlike with rail. Rail may very well be on the way out.
Rail on wheels is the future then? It is a bit scary image :) How do you overtake a mile long parade of semi trucks? :)))
OK, we'll live and see, hopefully.