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To: SiouxPal who wrote (166078)	2/19/2014 11:50:50 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

I've watched battery tech from long ago when solars were red hot. Not going to happen, except possibly capacitor batteries. But people have been working on that for a long time. No Moore's law in the energy sector. Apple can't handle the business it has now, its not going to branch into a completely new field. Besides there were no cars on Star Trek, they went straight to transporters.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (166078)	2/19/2014 12:11:11 PM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213185

My thought is Apple taking Tesla, and making it mainstream with more realistic pricing, and the typical Apple brilliance. New and future battery technology may be simply revolutionary. I could see them doing that as well, but such efforts wouldn't have broad market appeal because the cars would be extremely expensive. Perhaps energy efficient, cool, and decked out, but it would be catering to a small slice of the high-end high-margin market, much as Porsche does. Google's efforts, in contrast, seem to be geared towards making automotive technology that can be afforded by and used by the masses. Neither is inherently better, but they're very different approaches likely to lead to very different profits.