The electric car home vs chargers vs gas were stats were interesting to see. This may already be a thing but I'll make a prediction that when home charging becomes more ubiquitous the utility companies will push for a separate metering for charging which will let them bypass regulation on rates charged, pushing home charging pricing closer to charging station / gas prices.
"Software is the new Hardware" was good read. It's an interesting way to think about it, in a lot of ways it's like going back to the late 90s or the early mid 00s when you had to be as or more concerned with the costs associated with the hardware & networking than the software. That definitely inverted in the late 00s early teens, and now we're circling back around again.
I liked this insight as well -
"What does require that headcount is making sure that the product is integrated with any of X CRMs, automatically archived in Y storage providers, integrated with Z business communications tools. The biggest product typically has the most integrations, and as the cost of launching a new SaaS product declines, the investment required to have the right integrations for 99% of customer use cases actually increases."
I think this does make a lot of sense at least some of the technical reasons for headcount. The venture model also skews everything, that money has to go somewhere and the company with the most engineers must be doing some pretty crazy technical stuff to need that many engineers, right? 😉
I would take the other side on metering home charging differently, largely because most charging is off peak at night when utilities can make more profit per kWh than during peak time with very expensive marginal sources, and because I don't think it would be palatable politically to do it that way when EVs are very popular and so have more weight than utilities lobbyists.
I wouldn't be surprised if politicians had to find something else to replace gas taxes and started charging some kind of annual fee for infrastructure or whatever.
I don't disagree with that argument but living in the flyover states in the US EVs aren't exactly popular here but they aren't unpopular either, and utilities are regulated but not to the extend to where they wouldn't be able to pull something like that. I'd imagine it would be a fairly easy political move to make in this part of the US right now.
The comment about gas taxes is kind of where my head was at. We already know how much people will pay for it. Or you could look at it in a similar way to how streaming has been creaping closer to matching the costs of cable over time.
The electric car home vs chargers vs gas were stats were interesting to see. This may already be a thing but I'll make a prediction that when home charging becomes more ubiquitous the utility companies will push for a separate metering for charging which will let them bypass regulation on rates charged, pushing home charging pricing closer to charging station / gas prices.
"Software is the new Hardware" was good read. It's an interesting way to think about it, in a lot of ways it's like going back to the late 90s or the early mid 00s when you had to be as or more concerned with the costs associated with the hardware & networking than the software. That definitely inverted in the late 00s early teens, and now we're circling back around again.
I liked this insight as well -
"What does require that headcount is making sure that the product is integrated with any of X CRMs, automatically archived in Y storage providers, integrated with Z business communications tools. The biggest product typically has the most integrations, and as the cost of launching a new SaaS product declines, the investment required to have the right integrations for 99% of customer use cases actually increases."
I think this does make a lot of sense at least some of the technical reasons for headcount. The venture model also skews everything, that money has to go somewhere and the company with the most engineers must be doing some pretty crazy technical stuff to need that many engineers, right? 😉
I would take the other side on metering home charging differently, largely because most charging is off peak at night when utilities can make more profit per kWh than during peak time with very expensive marginal sources, and because I don't think it would be palatable politically to do it that way when EVs are very popular and so have more weight than utilities lobbyists.
I wouldn't be surprised if politicians had to find something else to replace gas taxes and started charging some kind of annual fee for infrastructure or whatever.
I don't disagree with that argument but living in the flyover states in the US EVs aren't exactly popular here but they aren't unpopular either, and utilities are regulated but not to the extend to where they wouldn't be able to pull something like that. I'd imagine it would be a fairly easy political move to make in this part of the US right now.
The comment about gas taxes is kind of where my head was at. We already know how much people will pay for it. Or you could look at it in a similar way to how streaming has been creaping closer to matching the costs of cable over time.