The Obama disposal has dumped anelectric truckloadof money on gondola and bombardment companies , with hope they ’ll modernize technology that ’ll make plug - power car desirable for the mainstream . As you may imagine , this is way bigger than just railroad car .
Batteries have been a chokepoint in consumer electronics for year now , and it ’s getting ludicrous . Think back ten old age ago : you plausibly could n’t have envisage all the furious stuff and nonsense you’re able to do with 2009 ’s smartphones , but you definitely would n’t have guessed that their battery would last less than two days . It does n’t make signified , and it ’s slowing things down — imagine what our contrivance could do if manufacturers did n’t have to spend so much of their engineering efforts of reducing index white plague .
The trouble is , truly fresh battery technologies require huge institutional investment , the like of which most companies are n’t capable — or willing — to make . As Wired explain , we ’ve beenstuck for years , but maybe , just maybe , this 2.4 - billion one dollar bill will somehow transmute into a breakthrough bombardment technology that ’ll dribble down to our gadgets , picture out DC adaptor obsolete once and for all . Or , it ’ll just go down into some kind of giant corporate money gob , and we ’ll just have to burden our iPhone 5GS Nanos six times a day . We ’ll see ! [ WSJ ]
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