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<blockquote data-quote="TwoForFlinching" data-source="post: 3326241" data-attributes="member: 24500">Might be how you came to know his name, but his claim to fame will always be paypal. His original online banking business in the 90&#039;s became the platform paypal works on. Space X, The Boring Company, countless other ventures, the guy has a knack for being on the forefront of new, massively successful ideas and movements in tech. Before you&#039;re too critical of electric vehicles, try to keep in mind, we&#039;re 135 years into the technology of the combustion engine. Cars didn&#039;t become fast until the 60&#039;s. They weren&#039;t powerful until the 70&#039;s. They weren&#039;t efficient until the 80&#039;s. They weren&#039;t comfortable until the 90&#039;s. They weren&#039;t all of the above until the 2000&#039;s. And it&#039;s safe to say there were people who said the same thing about motor carriages back then. How could they ever compete with horses...In the grand scheme of things, electric vehicles are still very young. All politics asside, to dismiss the technology as &quot;It&#039;ll never work, it&#039;s a waste of time&quot; seems incredibly shortsighted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwoForFlinching, post: 3326241, member: 24500"] Might be how you came to know his name, but his claim to fame will always be paypal. His original online banking business in the 90's became the platform paypal works on. Space X, The Boring Company, countless other ventures, the guy has a knack for being on the forefront of new, massively successful ideas and movements in tech. Before you're too critical of electric vehicles, try to keep in mind, we're 135 years into the technology of the combustion engine. Cars didn't become fast until the 60's. They weren't powerful until the 70's. They weren't efficient until the 80's. They weren't comfortable until the 90's. They weren't all of the above until the 2000's. And it's safe to say there were people who said the same thing about motor carriages back then. How could they ever compete with horses... In the grand scheme of things, electric vehicles are still very young. All politics asside, to dismiss the technology as "It'll never work, it's a waste of time" seems incredibly shortsighted. [/QUOTE]

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