Mozilla CEO pay is $6M, and the rest of the board members are about $0.7M or less. Total executive compensation is a little under $10M.
Their total revenue is $64M. By and large, the money is going toward developers and activism, which is where it should go.
This now gets into human limitations. If you're doing straight 500 miles without a break, you are running into safety issues. You need a break. Both for your own health--sitting that long is not good--and for others--your attention is not holding up.
In other words, a 350 mile EV that needs 20-30 minutes to charge is forcing you to do what you're supposed to be doing anyway.
We have three cars. Two EVs that are primaries. The third is a Miata that's used for Miata things. It works out fine as long as we plan things out.
Batteries rolling off assembly lines right now basically give as much range as needed. It takes a few years for car manufactures to get new components into actual cars, but that's just engineering work at this point. We're not waiting on lab breakthroughs to convert into practical manufactured batteries. Both range and weight will thus likely be fixed in the next couple years. The only place for hybrids left will be a few odd people who travel exceptionally far every day as a job.
12 months is easily enough to turn gas into significantly water. You'll have degraded performance either way.
Hybrds were always going to be a temporary transitional technology. They have a purpose, but it's already coming to an end of its usefulness.
And now the seals are drying out and you'll have problems later.
And now it's using gas when it didn't otherwise need to.
It sorta is.
A key way that human intelligence works is to break a problem down into smaller components that can be solved individually. This is in part due to the limited computational ability of the human brain; there's not enough there to tackle the complete problem.
However, there's no particular reason AI would need to be limited that way, and it often isn't. Expert Go players see this in AI for that game. The AI tends to make all sorts of moves early on that don't seem to be following the usual logic, and it's because it's laid out the complete game in its "head" and going directly for the goal. Go is basically impossible for humans to win against the best AIs at this point.
This is a different kind of intelligence than we're used to, but there's no reason to discount it as invalid.
See the paper Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations
It's important to note that TDP is a very fuzzy number. It has no industry-wide standard definition, and manufacturers play with the formula for their own products all the time. At best, it gives you a ballpark estimate of what cooler and PSU you're going to need, and some would dispute even that.
In 2.5 years, the EV market will look very different. Just the last year has shifted a lot around with the used market (such as Hertz cycling out a bunch of Teslas and offloading them cheap).
I've driven from Madison, WI to Chicago in an EV with ~100 mile range in cold weather. Wouldn't be my first choice, but I was in a pinch at the time. It can work, but getting a reliable charger network is the biggest problem. Made three stops to chargers that were broken or inaccessible for various reasons.
That was a couple of years back, and I think it'd go a bit smoother now. The Chicagoland area has reasonably good charger network outlays (much better than Minneapolis, which is a joke). Still wouldn't be my first choice, but it's workable.
Which have a whole bunch of issues of their own. Like increased mechanical complexity, and that you might use gas so seldom that it becomes significantly water by the time you do need it.
Unionize tech and then it can happen.