Making lighter vehicles is a big strategy to make electric affordable quick indeed. Maybe some companies will manage to find good solution and implement them quicker than car makers? Renault managed this with the Twizy.
I investigated myself plugin hybrid vs full electric, and full electric won for the simple fact that a plugin needs to be charged every day I will drive somewhere. For the electric, I can recharge it once a week or twice a month and it will cover my needs. I don't have an in-house charger so this is a massive difference.
In the case of local software, I agree. But most users expect connected services nowadays, which mean recurring costs for the developers as well in many cases.
IBM | Design Front-End Developer / UX Engineer | Near Stuttgart, Germany | ONSITE | Full Time
Our lovely design studio, inside the IBM Boeblingen R&D lab, is looking for a UX Engineer to work inside a design team on prototypes and help the engineering team deliver the best possible experiences to our users. You will make designs live and work with the designers so they can test and improve their designs.
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We are looking for front end developers in our Design Studio. We're building the next generation of products for our Analytics brand.
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