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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Charging the battery for a moped is not nearly as demanding as charging the battery for a car.

    I’m not entirely sure, but I believe that Vietnam is one of those countries where most people get around on a moped, and also one of those countries that has already been shifting towards electrifying their moped fleet. If that modal share doesn’t change they might not need major infrastructural investment in order to strengthen the grid.

    Edit: Battery swapping stations are also quite common for mopeds in countries like Taiwan. Those can be trickle charged rather than fast-charged.


  • Lobbying in itself is not the problem. Potential corruption and bribery are the problem.

    Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests and/or concerns to their representatives.
    That group could be a group of individuals or a business. A business lobbying the government could be as innocent as them informing the government that proposed legislation would make their business uncompetitive, leading to a potential loss of jobs and/or tax revenue.

    That said… I don’t particularly trust that Amazon’s lobbying efforts are all that innocent