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> I don't think the current major players are lazily sitting on their hands, they just tend to focus more on the march of incremental improvement than blue sky research.

I see the incumbents somewhere between those two sides: They have well-staffed R&D depts, but the margin of ICEs is just to sweet for them. Like how Kodak invented digital cameras, then utterly failed to monetize that invention because the profitable analog film business dominated the internal politics.



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