Notes Today: 

Toyota's Solid-State Batteries  Will Offer Over 900 Miles On A Single Charge

• Toyota has over 1,000 patents in solid-state battery research
• First-gen solid-state batteries will allow up to 745 miles of range
• Second-gen solid-state batteries will push this to 932 miles
• Expect charging times to also get better and faster..
•  Toyota versus Tesla chart
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•  “Despite the ongoing war, Ukrainian start-ups brought in more than $6 billion in revenue in 2022 — $542 million more than in 2021 — and have tripled in valuation since 2020,” according to an April 2023 report by Michał Kramarz, head of Google for Startups, Central and Eastern Europe. In a normal year, Ukraine was graduating 130,000 engineers — more than Germany and France.

• On this date in 1939, acting as the ally of Nazi Germany, the USSR invaded Poland, claiming that it was acting to protect national minorities and that the Polish state did not exist.        Timothy Snyder

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.