Locator: 51887BULLETTRAIN.
To be filed under "hope springs eternal."
When California voters first approved the high-speed rail project by passing Proposition 1A in November 2008, the total cost for the entire Phase 1 system (connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaheim) was estimated at $33.6 billion.
If you go back even further to the project's very earliest conceptual planning in 1999 by the California High-Speed Rail Authority, the initial baseline estimate for the statewide network was just $25 billion.
Seriously, in 2040, is there really anyone going to take the train from LA to San Francisco? My hunch: yes, only because commercial air will literally not be able to keep up with demand.
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Huawei
I have absolutely no interest in this. What caught my eye? "...EV sales slow."
But now Huawei only sells several million smartphones outside China each year, Yu said. He added the company plans to expand its HarmonyOS operating system to overseas markets in the next one to three years, and hopes China’s chip manufacturing capacity will one day enable overseas sales of devices with self-developed chips.
Will need to pivot to hybrids, which are simply ICE engines with batteries to supply limited increase MPG.