Do you have $60-80,000 to pay for an electric car? The Nissan Leaf, backed up by a major multinational company, is only about $19,000.
How does the Nissan Leaf compare with the Tesla—performance cost of charging, speed of charging, range, etc? Depending on the answers in 3 or 4 years I might find $35K interesting.
The Leaf is $39,000, not $19,000. That’s almost Volt territory, without having a Gasoline Engine just in case.
I think I’d rather get a “free” Hoveround from Medicare, if I was on Medicare of course.
I heard that there is a 152” plasma TV that sells for $500,000 that is selling very well. And there are companies that sell $50,000 and $100,000 stereos that are doing well. When you have a niche market for a very expensive item, there is always the possibility that there will be enough millionairs and billionairs out there to keep your doors open.
And that is the tesla market, and why this has nothing to do with electric cars, but with the concept of unique, expensive items having a market in the limited number of rich people. Kinda like cars were before Henry Ford applied the assembly line to their manufacture.
Nissan declared yesterday that they are abandoning any further R & D & production on electric/battery cars.
Too expensive...too short a range...too long a recharge...and other factors.
Are you kidding?
Ya seen the price of a new Porsche, a new Corvette..a Humvee etc, etc? And they take gasoline at 4+ dollars per gallon..
And in a 1/4 mile, the Tesla eats them alive.