Cars got electrified, nobody in 2026 looks at the EV industries success and thinks “what a bad idea”

But plenty of people in the late 90s did when the EV-1 came out with its lead-acid and later NiMH batteries. Modern EV battery tech wasn’t built for EVs, it was built for general applications, worked its way into consumer electronics and then from there into EVs. In fact, many modern EV batteries are made up of 18650 cells which were first used in laptops.

The Donut labs thing would make sense if they were also spinning off an energy company and just using the motorcycle business to get attention. Tesla and Ford have already successfully spun off energy branches though in their case it’s more to take advantage of their production capacity over any major leap in battery tech.

Random link says global motorcycle sales are $174 billion.

https://www.freedoniagroup.com/industry-study/global-motorcycles

Ford motor company sold $183 billion in 2025 alone.

https://s205.q4cdn.com/882619693/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Ford-Q4-2025-Earnings-Press-Release.pdf

Motorcycles are just such a small market compared to the application space for a high performance EV battery. It makes no sense to limit a new battery to that.

Of course it is. If you had the technology to create a revolutionary battery, you wouldn’t waste time with the motorcycle business.

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You forgot to put it in a PDF and charge $2 million.

Unfortunately it’s not quite 1:1. Depending on your location, a lack of bike infrastructure might have you biking significantly farther than you would have driven.

but napalm is notoriously sticky

Then what would napalm be?

does the UI just render blank squares in that case?

AWS wasn’t profitable because they were reiinvesting all their revenue back into growing the service. If they chose to stop growing, they could have been profitable at any point.

AI as an industry is actively, violently unprofitable. They can’t even afford to keep the lights on without torching investor money. The more they grow, the faster they lose money.

I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.

Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.

Hey look! We rediscovered netbooks!

Might have to dust off my EeePC.

I was trying to concentrate hydrochloric acid and had it in my boiling flask on a mantle. It was taking a while and I realized I hadn’t added a stir-bar, so I tossed one in.

Then the superheated hydrochloric acid flash boiled and shot out of the flask like 8 feet in the air. Fortunately, I was outside.

Switch Lite. Great console, but limited in stupid ways. Why no video out?

there were only 14 titles released in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Boy_games

Who would be the defense attorney? Clarence Darrow?

Well after whatever period of time, the option to even request a chargeback on your account portal goes away. Not sure how you’d even proceed at that point, but I imagine it involves an incredible amount of being on hold.

If tens of thousands of people started requesting chargebacks for the same product at the same time from a new vendor, I don’t think Visa would be quick to side with the vendor.

As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.

They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I’ve seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.

On the flip side, I couldn’t get Linux native Jackbox to run because the devs failed to update it to support something (Wayland maybe, IDK was troubleshooting mid Xmas party).

Ended up installing the Windows version in Proton.

That’s fair. Forgot about the delay on the App Store. Still I’d say the pipeline of Wii gamer to iPhone gamer is pretty small. Maybe more on the developer side than customer.

Phones put gaming consoles in everyone’s hand and made non gamers into casual gamers.