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Tesla outsells Porsche, Buick, Lincoln, others in California
Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 27, 2013 | Bengt Halvorson

Posted on 08/27/2013 10:55:29 PM PDT by grundle

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To: maddog55

They just started production and sales in 4Q12...


61 posted on 08/28/2013 12:04:41 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: James C. Bennett
HAHAHA!
Next you’ll tell me a bicycle is better than an airplane because it doesn’t need a runway.
You cracked.
62 posted on 08/28/2013 12:26:15 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: John S Mosby
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
63 posted on 08/28/2013 12:31:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: READINABLUESTATE
The Tesla is a coal burner.

Cali currently has 1.7% electricity sourced from coal.

64 posted on 08/28/2013 12:32:31 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: truth_seeker
Of those brands, only Porsche has hybrid or diesel.

Buick Lacrosse Hybrid
Lincol MKZ Hybrid
Volvo XC60 Hybrid
Cadillac Escalade Hybrid

65 posted on 08/28/2013 12:38:15 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Oops, Lincol = Lincoln


66 posted on 08/28/2013 12:39:06 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I stand corrected.


67 posted on 08/28/2013 12:41:35 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: James C. Bennett
The Tesla isn’t a do-everything car, but will beat most gasoline-engined cars when it comes to performance. That’s my original claim and nothing you’ve said so far falsifies it.
Most cars don't cost 100k to produce.
68 posted on 08/28/2013 12:49:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: John S Mosby

You’re getting 400+ miles range on methanol?
That’s impressive.
How big is the tank?


69 posted on 08/28/2013 12:52:30 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: nascarnation

Naw man...just making the point about the idiotic adoption of the highly polluting ethanol from corn, with Bob bought dog Dull foisted on us for his pals in the corn lobby.
Methanol burns clean, can be made from any cellulose base.

But uh, they can’t drive up the price on those things so no interest except in bourbon, corn distilled spirits. Ethanol pollutes terribly, and it is ruining gaskets and seals in small and large engines. Of course nascar would support this as it uh, drives up the cost of legal and illegal hooch in their uh... market demographic LOL.

High octane blend (yeah w/ ethanol and.... a blending of methanol that didn’t come from the pump works great.
Regular gas, sure 400 plus miles. Cruise at 65 hwy. 16 gal tank.


70 posted on 08/28/2013 3:07:57 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

For this you need 100K plus pricetag. Utterly ridiculous— make a smart/dumb car like this then. Oh, that’s right, the batteries. You see— it doesn’t work just because you say it does.

Mussolini-think: “the trains run on time because I say they do,and so do the train workers who make sure the books say they do” LOL.


71 posted on 08/28/2013 3:11:49 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Guilty tech yuppies doing their bit for...”the environment”.
Yeah, right. 2.6 children, too (stay up all night reading Margaret Sanger?) California is a mental state.


72 posted on 08/28/2013 3:15:10 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ja, Kraftwerk hat 1974 einen Riesenerfolg in den Hitparaden mit diesem Titel.

Right in there with Devo. Techno bump music. Not my thing really but mechanically sound. Vielen dank.


73 posted on 08/28/2013 3:18:19 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: nascarnation

Sure— not anything from the north of them or any part of the grid. Don’t think so. Grid is shared/purchase usage. So, not true. And if it becomes true Cali will have even more problems than they already have.

Moving onto the next scam— biomass power plants. LOL!!


74 posted on 08/28/2013 3:20:39 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Here’s the data set I used.
Feel free to point out any errors.
http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_gen_1983-2012.xls


75 posted on 08/28/2013 3:30:54 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: John S Mosby

It’s a high end luxury car... And one with the best Consumer Reports review in history and the best safety test rating in history. If you can’t afford one then don’t buy it.


76 posted on 08/28/2013 3:45:02 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Comsumers Report-— now there’s a great source. The vulvo drivers. Safety in a can of obamaumao. They like obamauamaocare you know, and it is real safe, too.

No, it is not a “high end” luxury car. What crap. It is highly priced. Please don’t give me any of that Palm Beach Worth Avenue crap- if you have to ask you can’t afford it. Already own or owned many that are way beyond this farce.

That is the point. We ARE paying for this, and we can’t afford it. If YOU (and all of us) can’t subsidize it... they couldn’t be in business. Period. The article is a sheet of lies.

Der People’s Auto—only for those special “high end” neo-venture socialists, like Hitler’s revenge- from caulifloweronia.


77 posted on 08/28/2013 4:17:53 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: nascarnation

Your first error starts with the ca.gov address. The land of fruits and nuts, and gubmint cpas with creative writing classes.


78 posted on 08/28/2013 4:19:52 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Feel free to supply better data sources.
The Wall St Journal says it’s about 0.6%

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323699704578328581251122150.html

As we used to say at work, without data you are just another manager with an opinion.


79 posted on 08/28/2013 4:30:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: nascarnation

As we used to say at work, opinions are like data, and everyone’s data comes out of some a-hole manager justifying their job for yet another day.

Deo Vindice. Arrivederci minestrone al poopeta infinitum.


80 posted on 08/28/2013 4:40:22 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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