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I've always wondered why products go through iterations rather than optimizing from the beginning.
For instance, there were many diameter increases in the silicon wafer industry. Perhaps it was a matter of technology needing to be developed to achieve each increase in size, but I often wondered why the theoretical optimum wasn't conceived of first, and then engineered to achieve that optimum. 450mm might be more efficient than 300mm, but the huge expense of building that infrastructure slows adoption and undermines the ROI of the previous process diameter.
Similarly, I wondered why hybrid technology first appeared in the least useful platforms to benefit from it rather than the most useful. There's practically no point in a hybrid drivetrain in the first Insight, for instance, as it's already a super efficient design without electrification.
My naive assumption is that someone who clean-sheet designed purpose built EV buses would dominate in all markets. The number of competitors matters less when a product is so clearly designed better than the competition. Tesla is an example of entering an established industry and finding huge success. I'm simply taking that approach and applying it to other niches.
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