I'm really happy with my IONIQ 5. Where there's infrastructure, it works great. It can recharge in 20 minutes for 2-3 hours of road trip driving, which for me is quite acceptable. I'd probably take the same breaks anyway.
But I agree about the stupid apps. They need to die. It's infuriating when my car could recharge quickly, but I'm forced to spend more time registering in some crappy app of a dodgy provider who's probably going to sell it all to spammers.
Similar, but all the components in it are a notch better — higher resolution, better pass-through video, more precise hand tracking, and much faster CPU.
However, my impression from iFixit's teardown is that there's a ton of tiny boards, screws, and ribbon cables. I bet in v2 they'll figure out how to package it even more densly.
That's kinda ignoring that there's more advanced headsets as well on the spectrum.
I genuinely enjoy the positivity around the product and the effect it could have on the field (even as an anchoring of what any new headset wants to be from there)
But that supposes the AVP is put in context, and I think we miss a lot of it.
I kinda feel we're back again in the PowerPC macs vs the rest of the industry days, with Apple set in its own impermeable bubble.
OP might be asking about hydrogen-combustion cars. I think Toyota is making one. The thing is, hydrogen combustion really makes no sense if you're worried about efficiency, compared to a hydrogen fuel cell. The only reason they do it at all is because of ICE nostalgists.
Hybrids don’t support fast charging, and need to be plugged in way more frequently to stay on the electric powertrain (regen is only a small incremental improvement and not a power source itself, so a hybrid not charged is just a gas-powered car).
Hybrids only make sense when you can charge at home. Otherwise it’s better to get a BEV with 10x larger battery, that needs to be plugged in 10 times less often.
I wonder if the next invention will be a "powerbank" for cars... rather than those dumb e-scooters littering the sidewalks, how about a giant battery on 4 wheels you can leave next to your car to charge it? When it's close to depletion, just like the e-scooters, a van can come around and take them to a hub to be charged. Or I suppose a car driver can put them in the trunk and return to that hub, in case they're driving that direction anyway (plus, they can collect another one to place in their neighborhood).
Sadly it'll probably need protection against people whose denial of the climate crisis involve violence and vandalism.
Charging is so close to being solved, that I don't think we need any new boondoggle. Just build more infrastructure and modern batteries.
For road trips, Nio has 10-minute battery swapping stations, but modern 800V BEVs can be recharged in 20 minutes.
City use is an even easier case, because most cars will spend hours parked somewhere. If not at home, then in a parking garage at work. There are street-side chargers too. In many cases you don't even need a fast charger.
But I agree about the stupid apps. They need to die. It's infuriating when my car could recharge quickly, but I'm forced to spend more time registering in some crappy app of a dodgy provider who's probably going to sell it all to spammers.