Worked at a place where they put the customer’s single PowerPoint slide with maybe 10 bullets describing vague requirements for a prototype solar powered airplane into Claude and asked for a project plan and deliverable schedule.

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.

Most of the secondhand stuff is out of date and no longer considered safe. Baby safety code changes constantly.

You want a fun experience? Try shopping for your newborn without using Amazon. It’s nearly impossible.

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2023/Neighbour-Notification-Plan-Final.pdf

I mean you have people who are pro-police and pro-military yet justify owning guns so they can overthrow the government.

The trick is to base your belief system on hating things you don’t like. That way you can ignore the completely contradictory tenets of the things you’re apparently fighting for.

E pur si muove

They’re the same color actually! Brown is just dark orange.