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by newsycaccount 6416 days ago
Then shouldn't the government just invest in fundamental battery tech, not car-implementation that will never go anywhere without improvements in that tech?
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Sometimes the best way to get a working technology is as a spin-off from a practical implementation.

I'm thinking about how building a superconducting particle accelerator led to great advances in the production of superconducting titanium-niobium. It was because these components were going to be used, that the effective technology emerged.