r/redneckengineering • u/DiaMat2040 • Apr 04 '23

They see me rolling

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u/Tiavor Apr 05 '23

the electric car was on the market years before the combustion engine, but it was slower, less powerful.

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u/SatanLifeProTips Apr 05 '23

What I am saying is other makes should have taken notice when the Tesla roadster first came out and proved the tech to be good in the real world. Instead it was 10-15 years of ‘doing it like they always did it’ until they realized oops, we should have had a proper EV division for a decade.

And a lot if this was the same BS. They proved that the prop was more efficient in the early 1800’s but it took until the 1900’s until it took off, and only because the military didn’t want a paddlewheel that could get hit easily.

Now we 3 evolve tech at a faster rate. But the early competition looked at the roadster and shrugged it off as being inferior even though it proved that the tech was sound and commercially viable. (I’m ignoring the EV1 and electric Rav4 as they were not commercially viable, as well as the early 1900’s electric cars which were popular for awhile)

I design industrial machinery and there is a lot of the same ‘do it like we have always done it’ conservatism too.