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    11 months ago

    From 5 to 10!

    Kidding aside, I love this, but would love exponential growth more. School buses have mostly pre-defined routes and always stop at home base overnight. They’re an ideal candidate.

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      11 months ago

      Technically 5 to 10! would be factorial growth. If that trend continues, we would quickly run out of space on planet Earth to hold all those busses 😉

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        11 months ago

        Also lawn equipment. I’m amazed that people still run these smoke spewing, oil leaking, horribly inefficient little devices all around their own property.

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          11 months ago

          I’ve found the battery powered yard tools fantastic, but I live in an urban area with small yard. I don’t know whether you’d have as good an experience with a large yard or as a service

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          I’ve tried out both a battery-powered weed wacker and a battery powered lawnmower and had to get rid of both. As much as I wanted them to succeed, they were both just seriously under-powered and needed multiple batteries to complete the job.

          Probably will take another look at them when my current gas models need to be replaced maybe in 5+ years, hopefully they’ve gotten better.

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      Idk, cases like these seem like a waste of lithium. Why not make it a trolleybus? You’d need much smaller batteries, they wouldn’t care much about low temps and charge time would be irrelevant. Seems like such an underrated tech.