Good description.
It's only a matter of time. How many laps were run with ICE bikes to set that 135 mph lap time? How many laps have been run with the electric bikes?
And those ebikes rely on 100+ years of suspension, brake, and tire advancements.
And those ebikes rely on 100+ years of suspension, brake, and tire advancements.
Every single construction worker here has a pick-up. And when the day shift ends, the side hustle starts. So they may not be using their truck to do their daytime, roofing job..cuz they work for a company, but on the weekends they're roofing for buddies or framing or whatever. Then they're towing the ATV up north or the boat for hunting and fishing.
That's a "pick up" truck. You go downtown and pick up girls with it.
FIne by me, but to say that EVs have made these huge leaps in only a few years without accounting for all they shared from the ICE world isn't accurate.Well, heck, if you're going to include history wasn't it the Sumerians who invented the wheel in maybe 3500BC?
Again, EV piggybaccked a ton of the ICE world, it's impossible to say otherwise.
Few years ago we rented e “skooters” in Montreal. They looked like small motorcycles. You could use them on the bike paths, which was a huge plus.
I beg to differ in a number of important ways. If the ICE expertise has been pivotal, the best EVs right now would be made by the car companies. In fact, just the opposite is true. The design leaders ate the companies that built vehicles from the ground up (Tesla, Rivian, Lucid), and the traditional automakers are struggling to catch up. The new BMW I4 has been the most anticipated EV in some circles, and it just does not have the range and performance of a Tesla. Of course all these makers use a lot of the designs from the ICE world (no need to reinvent the windshield wipers), but companies like Tesla got ahead precisely by reimagining a lot of the car components from the ground up (including the driver interface...with variable rates of success I must say).
The EV is an iteration on the ICE vehicle, to try and say it is 100% fresh thinking is ridiculous. Design-wise, some of the things that EVs "reimagine" is rubbish like the Tesla tablet slapped in the middle of the dash.
We have lots of family living in the north Houston suburbs. We visit every year for a week around Xmas/New Years. We tend to walk year around in our area, so we continue to walk when we visit. Every house in their neighborhoods has a pristine, maxed out "TEXAS" version, 4 door, short bed pickup in the driveway. You can usually eat off the beds. The actual work trucks are rare, and when we do see a work truck, there is usually one of these clean, non-work pickups parked next to it. The basic conclusion is that most people in this area use them as daily drivers, not as work trucks.
