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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoForFlinching" data-source="post: 3326416" data-attributes="member: 24500">That Bill Gates quote is ironic. It's ten years old. When he spoke of batteries, Tesla was still young. Their first roadster had wildly quick specs with a 250mi range. The new roadster has twice the battery pack, but nearly three times the range. It's twice as heavy, yet faster.You're looking at this as if lithium ion batteries will be the last battery ever developed, and that's not how science works. That's not how anything works.Imagine if they stopped making guns after the perfect 1911 was invented. What was the point in developing weapons beyond that?The only real example of a stagnant product being a good thing might have been Glock had they had the foresight to accept their domination before putting out a handful of truly bad pistols over the last five years.Nobody likes change. You don't have to either, but I can't in good conscience watch someone unknowingly say something so retarded without giving them a heads up. I'm just trying to be a good bro.Edit: For the record, electric has replaced diesel on most of the big engine equipment. The fuel may run the generators, but the infinitely more powerful electric motors do the real work.</blockquote>