Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Personal vehicles will be getting both bigger and smaller.  What&#x27;s different from the past is that electric motors scale much better than IC engines. Both the world&#x27;s smallest vehicles (kid&#x27;s toys) and the largest vehicles (huge mining trucks) are both electric.<p>First the small.  Cities will soon start to ban all but electric vehicles in their downtown cores  (already happening in some Chinese cities).  The primary reason being electric vehicles don&#x27;t emit the poisonous gases that IC vehicles do.  The next phase will be only EV&#x27;s that are half the width of a normal car lane will be allowed in the downtown core.  Most vehicles in the downtown core now are single occupancy, a city can <i>double</i> its downtown vehicle infrastructure <i>for free</i> by restricting most EV vehicles to taking up just half a lane.  These vehicles will be much cheaper too, probably less than $10k.<p>Now the big.  IC RV&#x27;s are a bit of a pain but an all electric RV will be <i>much</i> better all around.  That&#x27;s because all of the required functions will be electric and run off the huge battery.  Hot water, TVs, heat, refrigeration, very little maintenance just like a normal house, but smaller.  Tesla vehicles already have &quot;camp mode&quot; and people love it.  Image when Tesla builds an EV RV.  This will become young people&#x27;s &#x27;First home&#x27;.  Buy it for $70k and live in it for much less than rent.  When you finish Uni, you own an asset rather than peeing your money away on rent.  Oh and for weekend trips to the lake or the ski mountain and all that, couldn&#x27;t be more convenient.<p>Remember, you read it here first.<p>EDIT ... a few typos