Another super-obvious proof of the herd mentality, extreme idiocy,biological fear of change, and mind-blowing laziness to be curious (overwhelming majority of people) is the reluctance to switch to electric cars + complaining about ⛽ prices 🤣
While:
"A traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) has about 2,000 moving and rubbing parts (pistons, valves, crankshaft, camshafts, etc.). An electric motor typically has about 20 (the main ones are the rotor and bearings).
Transmission: Electric cars have a simplified transmission (usually a single-stage gearbox), while ICE cars have complex multi-stage automatic or manual transmissions.
Chassis: The suspension, steering, and brakes of both types of cars are designed roughly the same, so the total number of parts in the car as a whole differs by approximately 2-3 times (about 30,000 for an ICE versus 10,000-15,000 for an EV).
Thanks to fewer parts, servicing an electric car is 30-50% cheaper than ICE cars.
Here's what you're looking at Save:
No engine consumables: You'll never need to change engine oil, oil filters, spark plugs, timing belts, drive belts, or coolant to cool the cylinder block.
Brake system: Thanks to recuperation (when the car uses engine braking to charge the battery), physical brake pads and discs wear 2-3 times slower. Sometimes they only need to be replaced every 100,000 km.
Simple transmission: There's almost nothing that can break in an electric car's transmission, unlike complex "robots" or traditional automatic transmissions.
The main expenses remain standard: replacing the cabin filter, checking the brake fluid, and maintaining the suspension. However, it's worth remembering that electric vehicles are heavier due to the battery, so their tires may wear out slightly faster.
A 5-year comparison of electric and internal combustion engine vehicle ownership shows: The high purchase price of an electric car is offset by low operating costs, although there are some nuances with resale.
5-year cost of ownership.
Fuel/energy costs: Charging with electricity is 3-4 times cheaper than refueling with gasoline for the same mileage.
Maintenance: Electric vehicles have 30-50% lower maintenance costs due to the elimination of oil changes, engine filters, and spark plugs, as well as less brake wear.
Payback: Taking into account savings on fuel and maintenance, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an electric vehicle often becomes more favorable than that of an internal combustion engine after the fourth year of operation (especially with subsidies).
Value loss: This is a weak point of electric cars. Over 5 years, they can depreciate by almost 50%, which is faster than many gasoline-powered equivalents.
Battery life and degradation
Modern batteries (especially lithium iron phosphate) — LFP) turned out to be much more durable than expected.
Deterioration rate: On average, a battery loses about 2.3% of its capacity per year.
Condition after 5–8 years: After 8 years of use, most batteries retain more than 80% of their original capacity.
Overall lifespan: A modern battery has a lifespan of 10–20 years or 200,000–500,000 km before its capacity drops below a critical 70–75%.
Me: And there are also silicon-carbon batteries, which have the potential to increase battery capacity by 5–10 times.
These batteries can operate at -20°C without self-discharge.
Huawei has been very smart and has filed patents:
According to recent patent applications, Huawei is striving to achieve the following metrics for electric vehicles and mobile devices:
Range: Up to 3,000 km (approximately 1,860 miles) on a single charge.
Charging speed: Full charge or 10% to 80% charge in 5 minutes.
Energy density: 400 to 500 Wh/kg, which is 2-3 times higher than modern lithium-ion batteries."
-Google AI mode
It's really cool that engineers, not bureaucrats, are at the helm in China.
And they still push forward progress with e-cars.
Despite the resistance of the stupid/lazy masses.
But...
It's critically important to pay UBI only to those people who are ready to embrace new things and regularly implement no-brainer innovations into their lives.
Without coercion.
(People can NFTize how they apply particular valuable innovations in their lives with Verifying NFT Collections and be significantly rewarded for this by various entities.)
Because they are ready = they have realized the value of innovations, and it's their personal choice.
(Non-Playable-Characters who imitate can't create valuable inventions or valuably apply these.)
(There can be built many great Verifying NFT collections that tokenize how people apply innovations in their lives 😉)
This is mandatory to build a society of Intellectual Property creators.
"Curiosity is the key to creativity."
-Akio Morita
Interesting: Did you know that Akio was a mentor for Steve Jobs?
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"The "What if?" question is the core of Pixar's creative process.
The studio uses this prompt to strip away logical constraints and jumpstart the imagination when building their worlds.
Here are the main ways this question appears in the context of Pixar:
Almost every Pixar film can be boiled down to a simple hypothesis that explores human emotions through unusual characters:
Toys: What if toys were alive and worried about being outgrown? (Toy Story)
Monsters: What if monsters were actually afraid of children and were just doing their jobs? (Monsters, Inc.)
Fish: What if a father fish crossed the entire ocean to find his son? (Finding Nemo)
Emotions: What if our very emotions had feelings of their own? (Inside Out)
Elements: What if fire and water fell in love?"
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"Elon Musk emphasizes that asking the right questions is more difficult and important than finding answers, believing that proper formulation makes solutions relatively easy.
Musk, inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, believes that if you can properly phrase the question, the answer is the easy part."
-Google AI mode
Besides personal benefits...
Electric cars hugely benefit the entire human civilization.
Oil and gas are limited resources that are in demand in many critical industries.
It's not beneficial for our civilization to spend it on transportation.
If we can replace it with electricity.
Electricity is clear energy that does not pollute our environment and almost infinite.
Remember:
The ability to create valuable IP directly depends on scale of your thinking.
If you think about how to help the entire civilization...
(Not just about your own sake:)
Your inventions will have much more potential to become the next Haber Process.