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”the most competent”.

Possibly there was a smarter mechanical engineer than Mr. Ovshinsky, it would be hard for anyone to argue he wasn’t in the top 0.1% in his field(s).

Why a top engineer in the field of making petrol powered cars shouldn’t be able to quickly learn a “new field”, using quotation marks here because electric cars have been around for >100 years, is beyond my understanding.




Do you think individual technical contribution is the hardest part of retooling an entire industrial supply chain? Making a car is easy.


As per "Gung Ho", starring ~Batman~ Michael Keaton.




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