Posted on 06/03/2021 8:28:22 AM PDT by mylife
In January 2018, Elon Musk kickstarted several years' worth of speculation that he was going to enter the restaurant business, and of course he did it in less than 140 characters. "Gonna put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA," he tweeted at the time.
In subsequent tweets, he hinted that his Teslafied drive-in would also show clips from the "100 best" movies, and that Tesla drivers may be able to see the restaurant's menu on their cars' touchscreens as soon as they pulled into the joint. Later that year, Tesla applied for a building permit in Santa Monica for a combination restaurant and Supercharger station, but that application—and Musk's brief social media spitballing session—was as far as the restaurant idea went.
That all changed earlier this week, when Tesla filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services [and] take-out restaurant services." According to Electrek, the company applied for a trio of trademarks that include the word "Tesla," its 'T' logo, and a stylized version of the company's name. The application is currently "awaiting examination," and will be reviewed by an attorney sometime within the next three months.
If this actually happens, it will be interesting to see what a potential restaurant will look like, how it's staffed, or even if it's staffed at all. Tesla already operates charging stations that have self-serve lounges that sell coffee and sandwiches.
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You beat me to it. Throw in Stuckeys and the Fred Harvey Houses!
Might as well be a rest stop, since ‘fast charging’ takes an hour and a half.
hell yas!
will they serve beer ? lol
We had an A&W restaurant with in car service in the town I grew up in. No roller skates but the girls did wear short skirts.
Still can’t figure the wisdom of doing all this stuff when their first consideration should be having enough(reliable) electric power for justifying all the electric vehicles they say we will have. Without adequate power generating supplies we are screwed.
why not? the cars drive themselves /s
I have a relative who is an actual rocket scientist/genius. He says electric car manufacturers are dumb. He says they should standardize about 5 battery sizes for compacts to semis and have battery exchange stations where you pull in and your battery is swapped for a charged one in 5 minutes. No one would own batteries or ever have to buy a new one. No more hours of charging.
You’ll feel in ground shake from the Diesel Generators hidden underground
I’m with ya
“Still can’t figure the wisdom of doing all this stuff when their first consideration should be having enough(reliable) electric power for justifying all the electric vehicles they say we will have. Without adequate power generating supplies we are screwed.”
Instead of having enough for “all”, they might only have enough electricity for 90%.
A&W root beer drive-ins was a good place for too.
“There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs.”
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
Look at the graph U.S. electricity generation by energy source. Anything within and above the sinusoid curve for natural gas is potentially available for car recharging.
Let’s us underestimate at say 50,000 megawatts for eight hours, or 50,000,000khw for eight hours.
That’s somewhere around ~4kwh (~16 miles per day) for about 100 million cars.
It comes fairly close. It’s going to be decades to replace the gasoline car fleet. There’s time to build more natural gas power plants.
I admire Elon Musk in many ways, but when you try to justify long charging times for EV batteries by wrapping this around the process, then you’re ignoring what the actual issue is...long charging times for EV batteries. I may be wrong but I feel that Hydrogen Fuel Cells will win the day because of all the technical advantages inherent to them vs. EV batteries. These technical advantages will also turn into economic advantages and then it’s game over.
I wrote about a month back:
As for electric car long-distance travel, recharging probably will take place during meal breaks. An electric car range of 280 miles and an Interstate highway speed limit of 70 miles per hour means a meal break about every four hours. While chowing down, your car would charge up. The highway exit restaurants would have car recharging stations and would probably prominently post their current electric recharge rate, which would vary considerably by time of day, hopefully subject to state laws that base customer costs to the rate 10 seconds before plug-in time. Highway-based recharging places might have battery storage to store electricity during daylight slack demand times for sale at premium prices when sun isn’t shining brightly. Recharging establishments might buy solar-generated electricity off a nearby solar panel energy farmer.
Fast chargers are currently expensive, but they are mainly needed at stores and highway recharging stops.
Like gas tank exchanges.
What I detest is stores like Kohl’s using several spots up front where disabled should be. WTF!
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