Because Samsung already did cars...
Sony never made 'everything' such as household appliances. Sony was all but killed by Samsung's copying and then 'dumping' tactics of the last ten or so years ago. Sony's top-of-the-line TVs are still amongst the best on the market.
Coal is virtually dead in America so this isnt accurate. Whatever was left has been rapidly converting to natural gas plants thanks to regulation. And locally produced natural gas is intrinsically better in all ways. Environmental and otherwise. The new more dramatic clean air regs that are going into effect ahortly will put the final kaibash on coal.
If you see samung video on you tube they make everything so yea samsung have several car plants.
Didnt Mickey Drexler say Steve wanted to do a car? Who knows how serious he was but Apple is a company with $200B+ billion in revenues now. It will be pretty tough to continue grow that revenue base without branching outside of their current product line. Last year Tim Cook said iPhone would be Apple's main revenue driver for the next 5 years. Apple car is basically thinking what comes after iPhone. Perhaps Apple should be doing VR headsets and robots instead. But neither of those seem in their wheelhouse either.
Not this old trope again!
Energy production is more efficient in a power plant than it is in a car engine. To use an example with an identical source fuel, burning natural gas in a power plant is about 60% efficient, meaning 40% of the energy of the fuel is lost in the energy production process. In a car, burning gas is less than 25% efficient, with the vast majority of the energy lost to heat. The larger more complex system at a power plant will always be far better at capturing waste heat than a tiny car engine. The increased efficiency means that even a car running purely on coal-generated electricity will emit carbon at the same rate as a gas car that gets 30 miles per gallon—which would be a significantly cleaner-than-average gas car.
Link for the full details.
BTW let me know when you can run a gas car on solar power!
You think you're funny but yes they did, my wife had one when she lived in Korea. Bigger and nicer than a Carmy she says.
