The Tesla Model S is an all-electric car that has between a 208 and 265 mile range and costs between $70,000 and $130,000 depending on the options.
The Chevy Volt is an electric car with a gasoline engine backup. The first 40 miles you drive each day are all-electric. If you need to go farther, it turns into a regular gasoline car with a 340 mile gas tank. The starting price is around $30,000 these days.
Both vehicles also qualify for around $10,000 in tax credits, depending on your state.
Want to defund Iran's nuclear program? Buy an electric car.
See my profile page for why I support electric vehicles.
Sure, when you’re making two-grand-a-month payments or whatever, what are you gonna do, walk around admitting you’re driving a piece of crap?
until it comes time to replace the Batteries
Want to support the toys of the rich, that you can't afford yourself? Then support electric cars!
The tax credits on them are the most socially unjust program ever invented: the poor - who often have to commute long miles to get into the Silicon Valley for work - supporting the rich…
Both are heavily subsidized by the taxpayers.
The Tesla S is, however, an amazing car. I wouldn’t take a Volt if it was given to me.
“range costs between $70,000-$130,000”
I think Telsa has a nice vehicle. But the average Jane and John Doe can’t afford that. Heck I nearly choked on the cost of my truck that I bought last year.
And correct me if I’m wrong (I’m sure you will) but don’t the batteries have to be recharged using electricity? Isn’t electricity generated (for the most part) by oil? How would that defund Iran?
What if there is a power outage? How would one recharge?
I know a guy who bought a Tesla S - he really likes it.
” Want to defund Iran’s nuclear program? Buy an electric car.”
Bzzzt, logic fail.
Musk is an obamaboy, and Chevy is wholly owned by DNC Co.
Your money goes to Obama, who then gives it to Iran, am qeada, Isis, Cuba, mexico...
It's not sexy or chic but I'll take it over a Tesla without a second of hesitation.
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>> “Want to defund Iran’s nuclear program? Buy an electric car” <<
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Want to die in your car in an evacuation emergency? And block the highway killing others too?
Then buy an electric car!
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I’d take this 1916 Detroit Electric Brougham before I’d buy anything made by that slobbering Obama lickspittle Musk. New technology my arse!
http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/11/1916DetroitElectric_1500.jpg
Or this:
http://formtrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thomas-edison_bailey-electric.jpg
By the way, I am not anti-electric car.
Or anti-solar. Or anti-windpower, etc.
But the implication is distasteful that somehow buying an electric car by TAKING the money of other people who don’t believe in the current state of electric car technology, while implying that doing so is taking a moral stand of some kind against a nuclear-enabled Iran.
You might gain more ears by being less strident. Just my opinion.
Want to defund Iran’s nuclear program? Buy an electric car.
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How will that help?
My sister has one and I got to drive it. I’d highly recommend it for performance purposes. Acceleration cannot be beat. Range would be an issue for majority of people.
How is an electric car “green”?
Too late.... I am already sold on a 2015 Porsche Boxster GTS.
“Want to defund Iran’s nuclear program? Buy an electric car.”
Sorry, that won’t help their stock. It’s a lost cause.