Martin Eberhard of Tesla Motors gave an excellent talk tonight at vlab. These electric cars are the future. He should put up his slides comparing the various ways to power a car and their efficiency. It's *very* convincing. I remember visiting the tesla website several months back and seeing a cool new gadget, but what was missing was the punch that Martin gave tonight (that these electric cars are *so* much more efficient than all the alternatives). Another nice tidbit is that lithium ion batteries have improved in efficiency by 8% each year for the last 20 years and there's no reason to see this trend stop in the next 10 years. (another data point for the technological singularity)
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Edda | October 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM