> The engineer in me sees the complexity argument as insurmountable.
The programmer in me dislikes complexity too, but if we apply your argument to cell phones vs land lines, we can see that simplicity doesn't always win.
The programmer in me dislikes complexity too, but if we apply your argument to cell phones vs land lines, we can see that simplicity doesn't always win.
If you could only drive electric-based cars around your own neighborhood, the usage modes would also be entirely different and they never would have taken off either. (As, case in point, did effectively happen in the era of electric golf carts. It wasn't until they got real cars with real car range that things were comparable enough to challenge the status quo.)
Why would you presume that? The guy I replied to made an argument about ICEs being more complex than electric motors.
And fwiw, it looks like that post has been edited a ton. I was replying to a relatively simple (and questionable) statement.
Dude said: (1) engines are more complex than battries. So that means battrie cars will do really well on the long term, being simpler and all. The complexity makes engines (also known as "frozen water") more expensive to make, less reliable, and more tedious in general. (2) stringing a bunch of wires is complicated, and you ain't got to mess with that noise with a cell phone because it don't need no wire and is therefore simpler