Laptops saved Electric Cars?

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00:00what if i told you that right now your laptop is the reason tesla exists today this is the insane

00:09story of how a japanese electronics company accidentally saved the entire electric car

00:17industry in the 1900s electric cars owned 38 percent of the u.s market out selling gas cars

00:28but henry ford said no no no 500 model t and cheap texas oil killed electric cars for 70 years

00:39by 1935 they were extinct the killer you asked lead acid batteries weighed 1 000 pounds cost

00:50three thousand dollars in today's money and gave you only maybe 25 miles of range imagine your phone

00:59dying every two hours forever then sony dropped a bombshell in 1991 lithium ion batteries for laptops

01:10three times lighter five times more energy dense and they could recharge 1 000 times without dying

01:19elon's crazy idea in 2003 take 6831 laptop batteries the exact same ones in your computer

01:31wire them together and stuff them into a lotus sports car the results 245 miles of range

01:41today's tesla model s uses around 7104 of these cells so your laptop didn't just change computing

01:52it saved the planet what other everyday tech is secretly changing everything comment below

01:59right