Talkin’ thru his ass wouldn’t you say?
Batteries are the limiting factor. Sure, Tesla could have made a 600 mile range car, but instead chose to put the same amount of batteries into two 300 mile range cars.
Uh-huh, 600-mile range. How much faster would it have caught fire than the current Tesla deathtraps?
At least with internal combustion power, one can estimate just what the actual range would be by fuel levels and traffic conditions.
Eff the EPA. Give us the real world figures, night and day, winter and summer using heat and AC, and the likelihood of stranding.
Is that with the AC running while going through the desert or the heater running while traveling through the snow?
Here’s an opportunity for a clever entrepreneur. Design a collapsible bicycle in the trunk that can generate electricity while being pumped, that can double as a tire jack, and can be converted into a regular bike. If your EV runs out of battery power, you can pump away on your generator bike and recharge your vehicle.
EVs Rule! Because only the rich and elite should be allowed to drive!
Unless I can charge the battery in the same or less time it takes me to fill a 20 to 25 gallon gas tank it’s a non starter....with me anyway.
And how many hours would THAT take to charge up? No thanks!
600 mile range sounds really good ... until, once you include the mid point charging time, you realize how long it would take to do a 1200 mile trip
All you have to do is add a few rubber bands to store otherwise wasted energy, ie, use braking power to wind them up. Electronics can automatically switch to rubber at appropriate times to get an extra mile for every five or six on your battery.
So, assuming rational ‘range anxiety’, how long does one sit and wait for a full charge, after 500 miles?
Toss in covid tyranny, stakeholder capitalism, government/industry/big tech connivance, social media censorship, CRT, wokeness, social justice, environmental justice, mix them all together and the stage is set for "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
We'll end up with a two-tiered economy featuring profitable state supported monopolies and the top and the rest of us in socialism hell below.
From Imprimus: What is the Great Reset?
I would love to see a Trump/Musk ticket in 2024.
Lucid is hiring in my area (Pinal County, AZ) and I’d love to apply. However, they require you to be fully vaccinated so I’ll pass. So dumb.
My wife just got a tesla. She does a lot of short local driving between her businesses. Pros and cons to them, but since gas hit $4 a gallon here today, it is saving her a ton of money. A supercharger stop is costing $12 for a “fill up” with a range of about 300 miles. I am adding plugs next week at her stores, that should lower the cost to about $9.
Looking at the current interest in the tech industry with EV's and some of the advances in the pipeline, I will bet, right now, that 20 years from now this thread will look kind of silly.
There will be plentiful charging stations and they will work in a time frame comparable to filling your tank with gas. EV range will commonly be greater than 500 miles with some vehicles offering 1000+ mile range.
The real bottleneck will be the electrical grid and power generation. Again, looking at what is being researched now, I would say that a decentralized power grid with various power generating sources - including updated nuclear - will provide enough power to push all those golf carts.
20 years? Remember, this was the number one selling cell phone in 2002...
And your computer probably had 512K of ram...
TRUE -— Spoke on the phone with my young Tesla owning relative last week. He lives in Nashville with wife and baby. Wife needed to see family in really rural Kentucky where there are no EV charging stations.
So...... They all three drive down to Bowling Green Kentucky. Park their Tesla at an EV charging station at a supermarket and notify NO ONE! ... They then drive a rental car to rural Kentucky, where they visit with her family for two freaking weeks because a grandfather was on his deathbed. But an all around family visit I suppose.
Two weeks later they get back to their Tesla parked in Bowling Green and drive back home to Nashville. I told him he was lucky his Tesla was not molested or towed away.
Driving a straight road with little or no traffic with an ambient temperature of 70 degrees and no need for A/C heating, defrosting or lights... sure several hundred miles. However, a day with temperatures in the 30s with wet snow necessitating the use of lights, wipers, defroster and heater...mileage may vary. Ditto for driving across South Dakota in midsummer with temperatures in the triple digits making A\C a necessity. Good luck cruising in Northern Minnesota in January with temperatures in the -25 below range.