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Salviati

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2. Exactly, ICE engines are a mature technology.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #1)

Sun May 9, 2021, 08:01 PM

May 2021

It's becoming increasingly more difficult to wring smaller and smaller improvements out of them, but EV tech is still newish, there's a lot more improvements to be made, especially in battery tech, still lots of big gains to be potentially made there.

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