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First electric passenger plane lands at JFK in milestone flight. Travels 110 km costing $8 in fuel. (www.foxnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

amazing that it's not on gutenberg, given that it was published 92 years ago.

Wouldn't want people getting ideas, eh?

If we had simultaneously actually researched battery technology on an industrial level since the start of car manufacturing, I'm sure we would already have much better batteries.

It's not a joke or conspiracy that there's the fossil fuel industry engages in suppressing and downplaying technology that might affect their business.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Some of the first cars were electric, at least I remember reading about those breaking records (like going over 60km/h maybe, it was a long time ago).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nonsense. Oil companies would never do Such things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Only when mobile phones started being an actual notion did batteries finally start becoming reasonable. Now it's been like 40 years and the development is pretty significant. But if there had been 80 years more...? Who knows.