Dr. Qichao Hu

So it's able to fly farther or you can add more passengers and then more payloads.

Yes.

Right.

So if you keep the technology the same and then you're limited to the same power to weight ratio, it's almost like a rocket.

You cannot just add more battery and then expect that to go farther because then

the more battery you add, also you're adding more weight.

So it's not gonna work.

So you have to really use a different chemistry.

This is why like the early days of EV in the 90s and 2000s, there were these tiny cars, right?

Like no one liked those cars because they were too small.

But then the EVs after the 2010s, they started becoming more practical, like families and then more practical.

So actually, if you look at EVs today, I mean, the US market is a bit unique.

If you look at Europe, if you look at Asia, the EV market is actually quite different.

For example, if you go to Norway, if you go to China, basically more than a third of all the new cars being sold are EVs.

And then the cost has come down a lot.

So quite affordable compared to a regular car.

And then a lot of these new EVs are being made by a new wave of car companies.

And they really stress the interior design.

There's TV inside.

There's a massage chair inside.