Comments by "serafina costa" (@serafinacosta7118) on "Fox Business"
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The “ South American airframe manufacturer” , as someone posted here , well in the same town they call home , way back in the 60’s they algo gained a polytechnic institute to feed them engineers. And state wide there were always federally and manufacturers sponsored vocational schools churning out tradespeople.
The Polytechnic is known as I.T.A or Instituto Tecnico de Aeronáutica , in Sao Jose dos Campos . It is tuition free, but getting in there , one has to beat thousands on the admissions exams to gain entry . Only the brightest get in.
The Voke Schools are known as SENAI short for Serviço de Ensino Nacional da Indústria . They are all over the state and the country. You want to become a plumber , electrician , machinist , tool & die maker , programmer , there is your place to go.
And to booth , the town of Sao Jose dos Campos , has the Higher School equivalent to a Tecnhical Instituto known as Escola Técnica Estadual Everardo Passos , or shortly ETEC. They used to be ETIs , or Escola Técnica Industrial, same purpose , different acronym. Also free .
The irony of it all, it took a Military Dictatorship Regime , harbored by the CIA and the State Department , to get Embraer going , to provide the orders, the backing , the infra structure.
The initial orders were no match to Boeing l The old turbo props then come to mind , the Bandeirantes, a regional airplane to locales that could not feature real airport bring us back to those heady days. And the Xavantes, a training and recoignissance two seater with a likeness to WWII fighter jets. .
They still can’t make a jet fighter worth a lick , but then again , Brazil is not on continuous warpath. The Brazilian Air Forces buys its jets from France and Sweden, and that is just fine. So the focus has always been on smaller single commercial airplanes to haul people on regional hubs .
And the best part is , Embraer did not get swallowed by Boeing , a last minute scuffle a few years back allowed Embraer to remain autonomous and charter its own course , some sixty years in the making. Going to the fringes , cutting deals too insignificant to the larger airframe makers, avoiding to buy in into embargoes.
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Well, if there is a problem to be solved , then there must be a solution out there.
The problem with the EVs are not the batteries. The manufacturers are the problem.
They won’t allow the car owner to seek a battery skate that replaces the faded one, or the creation of an aftermarket for batteries.
Most of these vehicles are going to be solid from the chassis up. Hence they should outlast one, two , three skates.
The software is the grip that seizes the car and make aftermarket swaps impossible. In a way , it is similar with teiecomunications equipment. You don’t have an activation code , your chassis won’t work. Even if all components ( backplan , boards , CPU ) are OEM. Lucent , Nortel and others used to sell those Digital Central Office Switching exchanges , minus peripherals , for well over USD 3 million.
I like what NIO does ( battery swap ) , but even then , it is not feasible in a large scale setting.
I also do like what some Indy installers in California do. They take up VW Beetles and Vans and electrify those vehicles. The Van is even better , as it has a higher Center of Gravity which makes it prone to roll overs. The skate , in part, solves the stability problem. And the rear engine compartment is perfect for the electrical motor.
But I am digressing.
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