The Roadster Sport, an electric vehicle built by startup Tesla Motors, begins to redefine what electric cars might look like.
Posted on 06/26/2009 12:25:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Upstart electric car maker Tesla Motors will get a $465 million loan under a $25 billion program set up during the Bush administration as an offset to higher fuel standards. The program is aimed at helping automakers retool to produce more fuel-efficient or electric vehicles. Congress was slow to actually fund the program, however, so this week's announcement involves the first loans.
Tesla, which already makes an electric roadster, remains dwarfed by the competition. Ford will get $5.9 billion from the same program, and Nissan snagged $1.6 billion.
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The Roadster Sport, an electric vehicle built by startup Tesla Motors, begins to redefine what electric cars might look like.
All the cars we already have could be upgrade to double MPG by raising the fuel pressure so the dribble becomes a finer mist exposing each molecule of the best energy storage technology(gasoline) to proper combustion air making a bigger bang for the buck.
Electric cars are going nowhere. They do NOTHING to reduce the alleged “greenhouse gases”, and until they can charge a battery in the time it takes to gas up a car, and go another 300 miles the concept is DOA. Plus, where would you recharge them? - Completely impractical unless you live in a blue-hair, white shoe, white belt retirement community to get from the golfcourse to the blue-plate early-bird special.
80k price tag on the Tesla.
So, is this considered a subsidy or a “tax cut for the rich”?
You’ll never hear the MSM utter those words while Obama is in office.
And in this cornerrrrr,.....um...a Prius with a Ford sticker on it.
I know what I'D voter for!
Where is the electricity going to come from to power these cars?
California has electricity outages every summer.
Unless we build Nuclear plants, we won’t have the energy to even power these cars.
The logic is that they will be mostly plugged in at night when the grid is not under such a strain.
Ummm, shouldn’t fuel effecient vehicles also hold more than 2 people? (since we’re paying for this)
Fixed
Maybe it's time to bring back the Leyden Jar....
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