Don't be fooled - Elon Musk's electric cars aren't about to save the planet

The UK Telegraph ^ | April 6,2014 | BJØRN LOMBORG

[webstersII]

You don’t understand how subsidies work. Lots of people pay in and few get the benefit.

If you choose to be one of the few the that’s your choice.

[usconservative]

You don’t understand how subsidies work. Lots of people pay in and few get the benefit.

I most certainly DO understand how they work, and I most certainly do understand how many hundreds of thousands of dollars I've paid in federal taxes in my 30+ years of paying them.

You want to call getting $7500 of MY TAX Dollars back a "subsidy?" That's a sick joke.

[webstersII]

You can rationalize it however you choose.

[EVO X]

we may be talking charging times of around 15 minutes.

Quickly dumping all that energy into current batteries is hard on them. That is why Tesla recommends using the supercharger for occasional road trips. Tesla's have battery heating and cooling systems to optimize battery charging and performance. I would guess further decreasing the charge time would require a redesign of the battery and cooling system.

[Fightin Whitey]

Sounds like a tonne of bulls-— to me.

[SunkenCiv]

Quibble — the Dems don’t give a crap about American jobs. Politics is always and only about power. As long as they’re holding the reins, they don’t care about the direction we’re going.