I have been saying this for a few years now that people are underestimating the change solar, batteries and electric transport/machinery will bring about im many of parts of the world. People are not going to just get access to cheap electricity but also a lot of machinery that they can run with that electricity that was not possible before.

Yep, a memory that changed my perspective on this was in a tiny island in Italy where a grandma was riding her electrical bike uphill with no effort in the middle of the Summer.

When I mean uphill I mean not Tour de France level but damn steep still. And yet, here she was with her grocery in her bag, no problem.

That was absolutely wonderful because, despite my envy, she was autonomous!

She didn't need no stinking petrol station, she could charge at home. She didn't need a humongous garage where streets were ridiculous narrow. She could park somewhere, charge the battery home.

This moment was genuinely wonderful... and my point is that I do believe even though it felt relatively new, I can easily imagine it to deploy at scale for the benefit of most.