Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 09/07/2016 11:15:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s still a coal fired car.


2 posted on 09/07/2016 11:17:14 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice ( I live with a Fierce Allegiance)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t they call for the death of the diesel engine years ago?


3 posted on 09/07/2016 11:19:07 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Technically the Tesla is a good car. The debate over electric vs internal combustion will not be settled by this kind of hyperventilating hype - on either side - but by technological progress towards serving customers needs.

I cannot see owning an electric car myself, absent vastly improved range and cost performance - but progress towards those goals is being made, and I would not try to predict where things will go in the future.

9 posted on 09/07/2016 12:03:31 PM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
But what if I'm wrong?

You're not wrong, you're absolutely right. Crazy environmentalists want to throw out a product of over one hundred years of technical refinement - the internal combustion engine and gasoline. Extremely efficient, and gasoline packs a lot of punch for the money. My liberal brother-in-law bet me $100 in 2009 that gasoline powered cars would disappear within five years and electric cars would be dominant. He hasn't paid up, conveniently denying he made the bet due to dementia. He's lost a lot of money in solar power investments.

Electric cars are not going to become dominant for some years to come. For the time being, ICE cars will be dominant for quite a while.

11 posted on 09/07/2016 1:00:18 PM PDT by roadcat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Electric vehicles are subsidized at the manufacturing process and then again to the end user or consumer in the form of tax rebates

They are financially not viable without those two conditions


12 posted on 09/07/2016 1:14:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I watched a tesla get destroyed in traffic the other day and go up in flames. They melt really fast. It was an accident that a regular car would have been repairable, but this thing was just pa pool of junk on the road.


25 posted on 09/08/2016 6:22:57 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice ( I live with a Fierce Allegiance)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson