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← Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.
17 connected korrents · 16 moments on record from 9 Nov 2021 to 12 Aug 2026. Nearly all of them are about electric vehicles .
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Read this korrent: Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.
Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.
Last stated 4 years ago
by 22 Mar 2022
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2022-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same mistake. — tap to centre the map on it
A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same…
Last stated 5 years ago
by 9 Nov 2021
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2021-11-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel. — tap to centre the map on it
An acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops…
Last stated 3 years ago
5 Sept 2023
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2023-09-05 — tap for who they are
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Michael Grunwald — holds since 2023-06-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone. — tap to centre the map on it
China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.
Last stated a month ago
29 Jul 2026
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Dan Wang — holds since 2024-01-23 — tap for who they are
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Adam Tooze — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Cutting drag is worth far more in an electric vehicle than in a combustion one, because carrying the energy is so much more expensive. — tap to centre the map on it
Cutting drag is worth far more in an electric vehicle than in a combustion one, because carrying the energy is so much…
Last stated 4 years ago
by 19 Sept 2022
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2022-09-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Electric cars will not reach 30% of US sales by 2027; the forecasts that looked pessimistic in 2018 were still too optimistic. — tap to centre the map on it
Electric cars will not reach 30% of US sales by 2027; the forecasts that looked pessimistic in 2018 were still…
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Jan 2025
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Rodney Brooks — holds since 2025-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Electrifying high-mileage vehicles — trucks and vans — cuts oil demand more than electrifying private cars does. — tap to centre the map on it
Electrifying high-mileage vehicles — trucks and vans — cuts oil demand more than electrifying private cars…
Last stated 4 years ago
by 22 Mar 2022
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2022-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry. — tap to centre the map on it
France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.
Last stated 2 months ago
22 Jul 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-07-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Off-grid data centres will win the way electric cars did, by redesigning the machine around the new power source instead of swapping the power source in. — tap to centre the map on it
Off-grid data centres will win the way electric cars did, by redesigning the machine around the new power source instead…
Last stated 2 years ago
18 Apr 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A highly dynamic economy that cheaply mass-produces robots may increase rather than decrease the risk of Malthusian resource dilemmas. — tap to centre the map on it
A highly dynamic economy that cheaply mass-produces robots may increase rather than decrease the risk of…
Last stated 3 years ago
1 Oct 2023
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Tyler Cowen — holds since 2023-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it. — tap to centre the map on it
A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.
Last stated a year ago
6 Apr 2025
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Molson Hart — holds since 2025-04-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A physical AI agent has to be safe on day one, because you cannot ship something merely good enough and let users find the edge cases. — tap to centre the map on it
A physical AI agent has to be safe on day one, because you cannot ship something merely good enough and let users find…
Last stated a month ago
3 Aug 2026
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Dmitri Dolgov — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A world of a billion robots will need maintenance crews and hubs the way robotaxis already do, creating the largest repair industry on the planet. — tap to centre the map on it
A world of a billion robots will need maintenance crews and hubs the way robotaxis already do, creating the…
Last stated 8 months ago
8 Jan 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Language models supply robots with the one thing self-driving never had: common sense about what is likely to happen next. — tap to centre the map on it
Language models supply robots with the one thing self-driving never had: common sense about what is likely to…
Last stated 12 months ago
12 Sept 2025
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Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Robotics is not easier than self-driving; it is simply being attempted in a year when perception actually generalises. — tap to centre the map on it
Robotics is not easier than self-driving; it is simply being attempted in a year when perception actually…
Last stated 12 months ago
12 Sept 2025
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Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: One pre-trained robot model now matches or beats the specialists that were fine-tuned with reinforcement learning for the very tasks they were built for. — tap to centre the map on it
One pre-trained robot model now matches or beats the specialists that were fine-tuned with reinforcement…
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Chelsea Finn — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reinforcement learning cannot be scaled for robots the way it was for language models, because every attempt spends real robot hours instead of data-centre compute. — tap to centre the map on it
Reinforcement learning cannot be scaled for robots the way it was for language models, because every attempt spends…
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Chelsea Finn — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reinforcement learning only works once a model already knows something, which is why robots must be pre-trained by imitation first. — tap to centre the map on it
Reinforcement learning only works once a model already knows something, which is why robots must be pre-trained by…
Last stated 12 months ago
12 Sept 2025
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Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 — tap for who they are
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