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The charging time will likely also go down further which could allow for the batteries to become smaller for most use cases and thus the price come down even more.
And on top of that, if energy prices continue to stay high, the SUV/Truck era might slowly die away and smaller/lighter/aerodynamic cars with better mileage will become the norm. Less metal and smaller motor needed means cheaper car.
You cannot move from Twitter to SomeOtherUnknownPlatform.com or from the App Store to UnknownAppStore.com if those platforms decide they don't want you there. Well you can, but no one will ever see you again. You cannot even move to a well known platform in case your followers are not there (or don't use that OS). At least, it will take years to move them over.
I'm curious; how do you implement this (I assume you do not use Electron)?
Wouldn't a PWA (installed PWA) make the web app integrate the way you say with desktop icons, separate window, drag & drop etc?
More challenging is probably to power a complete system, i.e. everything around the MCU, like driving Ethernet or WiFi or BT as well as some analog sensors and the like. Embedded MCU's do not require much and if you can spread out the computing needs over time, no big deal.
Look at Casio watches and the like which you can run for 10 years and they provide quite some features. It's okay as long as it is features that stay within the MCU/Display realm. Now, the watches which provide BT, GPS, different sensors etc kind of suck in this regard.
It could also be said that it's a feature that the app does not 100% follow the native UI as the experience will be the same irrespective of which OS you are on.
There might be benefits with trams, but I do not know what.
By reducing the size and weight of the cars we use gives more than relying on magic new innovations. We use 2000kg cars to drive around a < 100kg person.
If we with the snap of a finger replaced all the coal and oil and gas we use with wind and solar power plants I'm not convinced that would be much better. Not maybe worse, but not better.
Wind mills everywhere, solar plants covering huge areas of land and a lot of metals and energy needed to construct all that. It just moves the problem around.
A small gasoline/diesel car is better than a big electric car. Or why not a small electric car such as this Citroen Ami or Zbee from Clean Motion:
https://www.citroen.fr/ami Or https://cleanmotion.se
Saving and reducing quickly now gives more than hoping for the new fancy technology being in place in 10, 20 or 3 years from now.
And the co2 eeded to produce your car's batteries I do not know, but probably several years for that too.
So I doubt your daily driving is carbon neutral just yet.