Tesla may be smoke and mirrors
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/a...ghway.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=johnmbroder&
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/a...ghway.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=johnmbroder&
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Wow, an interesting story. But one that shouldn't be surprising - batteries just aren't that efficient under cold conditions, and accessories like heat do drain power. It's kind of funny - here's this NYT journalist driving a brand-new, six figure car, and he has to go 50 mph, suffer ring without heat, while people in $3,000 beaters comfortably speed past him.
Sums up the electric car movement nicely and shows the waste of money and resources to build the thing.
Well, I'm not sure you can make that judgment until the resources expended on electric and gas/diesel vehicles are at least within several orders of magnitude.
I thought Elon Musk was a men's cologne...
I don't think you'll be disappointed. They've already become very popular in the Bay Area. There are 3 or 4 in the parking lot everyday at work and everyone here wants one.
Welcome to the future.
He should have picked on a Fisker. I think that one is a joke.
I agree entirely - Someone has to be the guinea pig, and it might as well be you.craterface said:Someone has to be the guinea pig, and it might as well be me.
Someone is subsidizing the Guinnea Pig and it might as well be ....Oh, I don't know - I like the Fisker styling. Dump that whimpy electric junk, add a 600+ hp small block Chevy engine, and it begins to develop some appeal. Here's a quote from a story in "Wired":
Bob Lutz, the petrol-blooded ex-GM, Ford and Chrysler exec responsible for some of the most intriguing automobiles to come out in the last three decades (think Viper, Camaro and Volt).... they’ve struck a deal with Fisker to provide decontented “rollers” of the Karma, sans the dinky four-cylinder engine, battery pack and electric motors. In their place, VLP has fitted one beast of a motor: the Corvette ZR1′s supercharged 6.2-liter V8, good for 638 hp and 604 lb-ft of torque.
See http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/01/vlp-destino/ for the whole story.
I agree entirely - Someone has to be the guinea pig, and it might as well be you.
Someone is subsidizing the Guinnea Pig and it might as well be ....